The Book of Shadows - Couverture rigide

Paterson, Don

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0330431838 ISBN 13 : 9780330431835

Editeur : Picador, 2004

Synopsis

Eloquent, illuminating, and intimate, The Book of Shadows is where the profound, the poetic and the profane meet to glorious effect Aphorism (n.): a pithy observation which contains a general truth 'All my teachers have been women. Though several men have taken me aside for an hour to tell me things they know' The Book of Shadows contains several hundred reflections and aphorisms on love, God, art, sex, death, work, and the spirit, imagination and conduct of the human animal. Writing with the same mixture of high seriousness, dark humour and lyric precision that define his poetry, Don Paterson has made a book to carry everywhere and open anywhere - to brighten or darken the moment, but always to administer a jolt to the idling mind. 'Falling and flying are near-identical sensations, in all but one final detail. We should remember this when we see those men and women seemingly in love with their own decline'

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Don Paterson’s most recent poetry collection, Landing Light , won the 2001 Whitbread Poetry Award, and also received the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize – making him the first poet to have won the award twice. He works as a musician and editor, teaches at the University of St Andrews, and lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330431838
• ISBN 13: 9780330431835
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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