Ruth Fainlight New & Collected Poems - Softcover

Fainlight, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852248858 ISBN 13: 9781852248857

Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2011

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Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966. Her poems `give us truly new visions of usual and mysterious events' (A.S. Byatt). Each is a balancing act between thought and feeling, revealing otherness within the everyday, often measuring subtle shifts in relationships between women and men.

Images of the moon, however interpreted - whether as stern and stony presence or protective maternal symbol - recur throughout her work. Peter Porter Discribed one of her collections as having `the steadiness and clarity of the moon itself'.

This substantial New & Collected Poems covers work written over 50 years, drawing on over a dozen books as well as a whole new collection.

`Ruth Fainlight has always been a painterly poet, sensuous and observant, who has paid particular attention to myth as it shapes destiny or gives meaning...the mind winding itself into narratives, prompted now by pain, now loss, now keen pleasure' - George Szirtes, TLS

`If there is a suggestion of feminist defiance here, so much the better; at least Fainlight isn't strident. With so much talent and confidence, she doesn't need to be'---Derek Mahon, London Review of Books

`Her voice can be cutting as well as lyrical... Fainlight is terrific on the subject of ageing' ---Helen Dunmore, Poetry Review

`Bright and glittering...Her work has matured elegantly, and this too is an exhilarating book'---Margaret Drabble, Guardian (Books of the Year)

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Ruth Fainlight is a freelance writer. She was poet in Residence at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, in 1985 and 1990, and Writing Tutor at the Performing Arts Labs, International Opera and Music Theatre Labs in the UK in 1997-99. She lives in London, and was married to the late Alan Sillitoe for over 50 years.

Her New & Collected Poems covers work written over 50 years, drawing on over a dozen books as well as a whole new collection. Four of those collections were first published by Bloodaxe, including Sugar-Paper Blue (1997). Which was short-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Other collections were published by Macmillan, Hutchinson and Sinclair-Stevenson.

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• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1852248858
• ISBN 13: 9781852248857
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 543
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