The Lovely Disciplines - Couverture souple

Crucefix, Martyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781723893 ISBN 13 : 9781781723890

Editeur : Seren, 2017

Synopsis

Poet Martyn Crucefix s new collection, The Lovely Disciplines, steps straight into a contemporary world where cursors blink, people Skype, consult Google Street View, make erotically-charged visits to the opticians, find ATM receipts in secondhand books of poetry. Such acuteness of observation is one of the 'lovely disciplines' in these vivid, exploratory poems that surprise and delight with portraits of a motor-biking boy-racer, strange meetings at Heathrow and images from Crucefix's native Wiltshire: a toll cottage, the West Kennet long barrow, the weir at Tellisford.

At the centre of the book are poems tracing family grief in the decline of an older generation, yet Crucefix everywhere anticipates a wider, more joyful reconciliation of opposites. In The Lovely Disciplines the ultimate value is love experienced as if each was at last all creatures / and all things all empty ways / all stones all metals and all streams .

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Martyn Crucefix has won numerous prizes including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. He has published 7 collections of poetry including Hurt (Enitharmon, 2010). His translation of Rilke s Duino Elegies (Enitharmon, 2006) was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation and hailed as unlikely to be bettered for very many years (Magma). His translation of Rilke s The Sonnets to Orpheus appeared from Enitharmon in 2012, further translations of Rainer Maria Rilke as well as the the Daodejing, in 2016.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781723893
• ISBN 13: 9781781723890
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible