Certain Windows: Poems and Prose - Couverture souple

Burt, Dan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847771610 ISBN 13 : 9781847771612

Editeur : Carcanet Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Certain Windows is Dan Burt's second chapbook collection. It includes poems, sequences and the title prose, a vivid memoir evoking a harsh formative world. Among others, the poet's father comes alive here and in the poems, a powerful, hard and sympathetic figure with the wisdom of the man of action. Dan Burt is a master of traditional forms, memorable lines, which continue accruing sense and pleasure with each reading. The scale of his concerns is matched, in the sequences, by a substantial formal architecture, and an answerable narrative informs each poem. In Certain Windows the dominant notes are elegiac and philosophical and he is rigorously unsentimental in his retrospects and unillusioned in his sense of the natural and social worlds.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia in 1942. He attended state schools and a local catholic college before reading English at Cambridge. He graduated from Yale Law School and practiced law in the United States, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia until moving to London in 1994 and becoming a British citizen. He is an honorary Fellow of St. John's College Cambridge and lives and writes in London. His poetry publications include the Lintott pamphlet Searched for Text (2008) and Cold Eye, a poetry and image collaboration with the artist Paul Hodgson (2010).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847771610
• ISBN 13: 9781847771612
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
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• Personne responsable: non disponible