Nine Lessons From The Dark (Cape Poetry) - Softcover

Thorpe, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224063855 ISBN 13: 9780224063852

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 2003

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Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces left of presence: Indian scratchings on rock, the nail-marks of destroyed frescoes, spoken fragments of war memories - petroglyphs that function as both memorials and re-awakenings, traceable with the finger of the imagination. And here, too, are images of the stilled, the stopped life: a snowed-up village, the paralysed victim of motor-neurone disease, a soft drink fermented in an old village cafe.

From this rueful equilibrium of mid-life, Thorpe circles his own personal history, allowing regret and anticipation their Janus-like say. These are erudite, generous poems, formally versatile yet rich in startlingly original observation and a natural lyric grace. Performing his unique archaeology on lives lived, Adam Thorpe once again displays the range of his imagination and the depth of his humanity.

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Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992 and he has published two books of stories and ten further novels, most recently Missing Fay (2017), and six poetry collections.


www.adamthorpe.net

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This powerful, fourth poetry collection from the author of Ulverton continues the poet's engagement with history -- the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past.

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l, fourth poetry collection from the author of Ulverton continues the poet s engagement with history -- the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0224063855
• ISBN 13: 9780224063852
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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