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As if Only - Couverture souple

Davidson, Ian

 
9781905700080: As if Only
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1905700083 ISBN 13 : 9781905700080
Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2007

Synopsis

The author says of this book: These poems were written in Bangor, in north Wales, in Barcelona, in London, on the Baltic coast and in Fez and Marrakech. Despite the distances involved they are the result of a period of introspection and self-possession. Travel doesn't necessarily broaden the mind. In some cases only the long lines would do, and the language had to be chewed over, while in others, when the town was quiet and the blood had stopped pounding in my head, I could clip the tone and measure out the words a few at a time. A lot happened in the two years in which these poems were written. There was a war, and there were bombs in London. There were things hardly possible to deal with, including the return of an imperialist and colonialist attitude that I thought was part of history and would never return in my lifetime. Some of that gets in the poems. But I was mainly interested in myself, and how I'd got the way I had. How the traces of a life had marked the skin.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ian Davidson was born in 1957 and has lived most of his life in Wales. He currently teaches writing and literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and completed a PhD in contemporary poetry in 2003. He lives in Anglesey.

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Éditeur
Shearsman Books
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1905700083
ISBN 13 
9781905700080
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
96
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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