Heaven's Gate - Softcover

Curtis, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854112945 ISBN 13: 9781854112941

Verlag: Seren, 2001

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Reseña del editor

Tony Curtis's new collection of poems encompasses a wide variety of forms and subjects in which he looks at the world with an ever keener eye. Heaven's gate is the eagerly awaited new collection by one of Britains's best poets. Though Curtis's themes and subject matter are diverse, there is a persuasive clarity to his poems. His style is seemingly casual, almost artless, but is actually carefully composed. The sonnet sequence dedicated to a son studying abroad, 'Letters to Gareth in Amherst', is characteristic. The light newsy voice contrasts with the tight sonnet form while the rhymes become the envelope containing and restraining the father's emotions. Conversely, casual domestic encounters and incidents take on a beguiling intimacy. In the title poem the hale Bopp comet is glimpsed and consiered from the carpark of an Indian restaurant. As ever, these well-crafted poems are grounded in the particular but insinuated by the universal.

Biografía del autor

Tony Curtis is a professor of poetry at the University of Glamorgan in Wales. He is the author of "Heaven's Gate," "Welsh Artists Talking," and "Welsh Painters Talking" and the editor of "After the First Death," an anthology of war poetry.

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• Verlag: Seren
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1854112945
• ISBN 13: 9781854112941
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 72