Voices in the Distance - Softcover

Simpson, Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852248610 ISBN 13: 9781852248611

Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2010

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'Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways - of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry' - Seamus Heaney. 'Simpson's entire oeuvre can be seen as, among other things, a prolonged fight for America - a struggle for everything that it claims to stand for, and for the real goodness at the heart of many of its people, against all things that are mean, stupid, easy or tawdry - For all his mordant wit, he has never lost his ability to see through to the underlying reality of the human heart and the rolling years' - Bruce Bawer, Hudson Review. 'It's pleasant to be in the company of this vigorous humanist, who seems to fathom the importance of experience down to a marvelous, irreducible core. His illuminating, unfussy stories about Russian pogroms, lonely immigrants, belly dancers, lost soulsA" and plain-facedA" schlemiels, document a hidden, vanished side of American urban life. What Simpson hears in a rain storm describes his own vision: Be afraid / and know yourselvesA" ' - Frank Allen, Library Journal.

Reseña del editor:

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson has been a leading figure in American letters for more than half a century. Born in 1923 in Jamaica, the son of a lawyer of Scottish descent and a Russian mother, he emigrated to America at the age of 17. Voices in the Distance is the first selection of his poetry to be published in Britain for over 25 years, drawing on 18 collections, from The Arrivistes (1949) to his latest book, Struggling Times, which he published last year at the age of 86. Both timely and personal, Louis Simpson's poetry dramatises his continuing quarrel with suburban America, as well as his concerns about the direction of an American society struggling to retain its integrity in the midst of widespread challenges and worldwide strife.

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• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1852248610
• ISBN 13: 9781852248611
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176