Illennium - Couverture souple

Goodby, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848610947 ISBN 13 : 9781848610941

Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2010

Synopsis

John Goodby's sequence of sixty-seven sonnets read as a tribute to Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the author of the masterly The Sonnets(1964), updated and transplanted from New York City to South Wales. Irreverent and at times shamelessly erotic, Goodby adopts Berrigan's unique collage style in these poems, repeating and refiguring lines of the ongoing work so that unexpected shifts in meaning occur in each new context, generating a kind of Fast Show meets Jules Laforgue effect. In these poems 'the existence of long-lasting emotions is something of a puzzle' as we enjoy mysterious encounters with film nut Nigel and Harry H Corbett in Carmarthen's Latin Quarter and are exhorted repeatedly to accept that 'love is a babe'. If I ever write a poem this raw I'll be amazed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born and brought up in Birmingham, John Goodby has lived since his late teens in Yorkshire, Ireland, and Wales, where he currently lectures in English literature at Swansea University. He has written extensively on Irish, Welsh and English poetry, and his own poetry has appeared in Angel Exhaust, Stand and Poetry Review, among other journals. His poetry translations include Heine's Germany: A Winter's Tale (Smokestack, 2005) and, with Tom Cheesman, Adel Guemar's State of Emergency (Arc, 2007). He is the artistic director of the Boiled String poetry performance troupe and co-organiser with Lyndon Davies of the annual Hay-on-Wye Poetry Jamboree.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shearsman Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848610947
• ISBN 13: 9781848610941
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 86
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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