The Handless Maiden - Couverture souple

Feaver, Vicki

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0224090046 ISBN 13 : 9780224090049

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2009

Synopsis

The poems in this extraordinary book deal in familiar emotions - love, grief, rage, loneliness - but do so with such a fresh and fierce eye, such lived intensity, that the familiar is given again the force to touch our nerves, to seem raw and new. Some of the poems are based in the territory of home and childhood, others move into that unnerving space where the safe and polite world plunges over a ledge - into anarchic revisions of what is possible or acceptable. They treat myths and fairy stories, or even paintings, not as fictions but as part of our continuing experience. Powerful and sensuous, wry and witty, their clear voice stays in the mind: provoking, questioning, refusing to accept the soft lie. These disturbing and passionate poems demand to be read.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Vicki Feaver was born in Nottingham in 1943 and studied at Durham and University College, London. She has published three previous collections, Close Relatives (1981), The Handless Maiden (1994) and The Book of Blood (2006), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and Costa Award for Poetry. She received the W.H. Heinemann Award in 1994 and the Cholmondeley Award in 1999.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224090046
• ISBN 13: 9780224090049
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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