Firewriting, and Other Poems - Softcover

Muckle, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907562647 ISBN 13: 9780907562641

Verlag: Shearsman Books, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

This is John Muckle's first poetry collection. The book's main feature is the long title poem, in which the author imagines that the German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin escaped death by his own hand on the French-Spanish border in 1940 - his revolver misfired - and has survived as a kind of wanderer and witness. After the war he returned to Paris, but later moved to London where, in the 'now' of the poem at the age of 120, he is recalling some of his ideas - and confessing - to a nurse, whom he imagines might also be a student of his work. The poem is a personal view of Benjamin, and the author hopes that any reader unfamiliar with his writings might begin with 'Illuminations' and embark on a long journey with one of the great radical thinkers of any century. The remainder of the book features many of Muckle's trademark narrative poems.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Muckle was born in Cobham, Surrey, but has lived most of his life in Essex and London. In the 1980s he initiated the Paladin Poetry Series and was General Editor of its flagship anthology, The New British Poetry (Paladin, 1988). His previous books include The Cresta Run (short stories), Cyclomotors (a novella with photo illustrations), Firewriting and Other Poems (Shearsman Books, 2005), three novels, also from Shearsman, London Brakes (2010), My Pale Tulip (2012), Falling Through (2017), Mirrorball (poems, 2018) and a new critical study of British fiction in the 1950s and 1960s, Little White Bull (Shearsman, 2014).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0907562647
• ISBN 13: 9780907562641
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 132
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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