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Spark In The Dark - Couverture souple

Constable, John

 
9780956247384: Spark In The Dark
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0956247385 ISBN 13 : 9780956247384
Editeur : Thin Man Press, 2014

Synopsis

Best known for his 'Southwark Mysteries', this is John Constable's first collection of poetry. His style has been described in 'Time Out' as 'like Shakespeare on acid'. The poems in this book encompass political satires and magical realist lyrics. In the line of Blake, they reveal the eternal, spiritual forms of our transitory, material world, celebrating the dynamic interplay of Contraries to challenge rigid belief-systems. For his Burlesques and other satirical poems, Constable employs ballad and contemporary rap to expose hypocrisy and conditioned thinking; in his Spirit Songs these same, deceptively simple, narrative forms are used to explore profound mystical themes. This transforming vision in action, as exemplified in The Southwark Mysteries and in the later Cross Bones poems, illuminates Constable's work as the urban shaman John Crow. In Winchester Cathedral: Time Out Of Mind, different ages, perspectives and literary styles collide to evoke a complex, and deeply conflicted, sense of place. The other prose poem, Wennefer, is an hallucinatory, visceral, cautionary tale, retelling the Isis and Osiris myth in contemporary south London club culture. 'Past and present, sacred and profane jostle and collide in a glorious tumult... couched in verse that is muscular, ribald, and often dazzlingly rich...' The Times 'Blakean verse that resonates with modern life...' Freedom 'Like Shakespeare on acid...' Time Out

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Best known for his 'Southwark Mysteries', this is John Constable's first collection of poetry. His style has been described in 'Time Out' as 'like Shakespeare on acid'. The poems in this book encompass political satires and magical realist lyrics. In the line of Blake, they reveal the eternal, spiritual forms of our transitory, material world, celebrating the dynamic interplay of Contraries to challenge rigid belief-systems. For his Burlesques and other satirical poems, Constable employs ballad and contemporary rap to expose hypocrisy and conditioned thinking; in his Spirit Songs these same, deceptively simple, narrative forms are used to explore profound mystical themes. This transforming vision in action, as exemplified in The Southwark Mysteries and in the later Cross Bones poems, illuminates Constable's work as the urban shaman John Crow. In Winchester Cathedral: Time Out Of Mind, different ages, perspectives and literary styles collide to evoke a complex, and deeply conflicted, sense of place. The other prose poem, Wennefer, is an hallucinatory, visceral, cautionary tale, retelling the Isis and Osiris myth in contemporary south London club culture. 'Past and present, sacred and profane jostle and collide in a glorious tumult... couched in verse that is muscular, ribald, and often dazzlingly rich...' The Times 'Blakean verse that resonates with modern life...' Freedom 'Like Shakespeare on acid...' Time Out

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Éditeur
Thin Man Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0956247385
ISBN 13 
9780956247384
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
134
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