Verbum Et Verbum - Couverture souple

Fanning, Micheal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1897648898 ISBN 13 : 9781897648896

Editeur : Salmon Poetry, 1997

Synopsis

In the best of these poems Micheal Fanning relives a South Kerry childhood dominated by the sea: 'the great comforter'. Images are simple and memorable: "the horse gallops/into the lungs of the wind." He moves from the subtle colours of this bird-filled landscape to apocalyptic scenes of massacre in Rwanda, famine in Ethiopia, Romanian orphanages, a fox hunt, a body riven with cancer. He depicts the early monk scribes who painted otters and griffins to illuminate their manuscripts, much as he seeks images to make sense of a world torn by violence, hurt, and unspoken feelings. Grappling with issues of suffering and faith, he constructs his own stone wall of understanding, cementing it with a host of Classical and early Christian allusions: "The Maker arranges nouns, verbs, adjectives .. and places stones to structure/the storm strafed wall."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Salmon Poetry
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1897648898
• ISBN 13: 9781897648896
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible