Listening in - Couverture souple

Reeves, Gareth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1857540115 ISBN 13 : 9781857540116

Editeur : Carcanet Press Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

This collection of poems are by turns humorous, painful, spiky and eloquent, recalling Gareth Reeves's father, the poet and critic James Reeves. The collection culminates in a sequence of fourteen lyrics about his father's partial-sightedness. For Gareth Reeves the anxiety of influence is a filial matter. In other poems the quirks of memory stimulate a difficult truth-seeking - about an organ-playing chemistry teacher, an Oxford suicide and odd-ball, a black American con-artist, an expatriate Marxist Englishman in California, about teaching Vietnam draftees, about selling blood in pre-Junta Greece - whilst in poems such as "The Cockroach Sang in the Plane-tree", "High Life" and "Gaps" (about the poet Norman Cameron), the concern with mortality finds bleak and disconcerting expression.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857540115
• ISBN 13: 9781857540116
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible