Our Lady of Europe - Couverture souple

Hooker, Jeremy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1900564157 ISBN 13 : 9781900564151

Editeur : Enitharmon Press, 1997

Synopsis

The terror slips from its dream image along forest tracks and pathways of the mind,and emerges scrawny, exhausted by a long winter, sniffing at the town garbage dump. For now, the sun may complete its nuclear explosions with impunity out of the reach of slackened jaws. 'a poet at the height of his inspiration.' Michael Symmons Roberts, "TLS". 'a deceptively readable poetry that leaves phrases and images in the mind as the best poems should.' - Gillian Clarke, "The David Jones Journal".This collection consists of poems set in continental Europe, Palestine and Wales. From Spitzbergen to Jerusalem, the poems render different places with physical immediacy, and reveal the historical and cultural forces that have gone to their making. The main unifying theme is the relation between European culture, with its history of violent destructiveness as well as creativity, and images of the Great Mother. It is an ambitious book of poems, which explores the roots of Western civilization and is informed by a sense of crisis in the relation between European 'man' and the natural world.

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À propos de l'auteur

In a distinguished career as poet and academic, Jeremy Hooker has published studies of David Jones, John Cowper Powys and Richard Jefferies, and a number of critical books, including Writers in a Landscape and Imagining Wales: A View of Modern Welsh Writing in English. He was born in Hampshire in 1941 and is now a Professor at the University of Glamorgan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Enitharmon Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1900564157
• ISBN 13: 9781900564151
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible