The Readiness - Couverture souple

Gillis, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1930630948 ISBN 13 : 9781930630949

Editeur : Wake Forest University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Alan Gillis's The Readiness is a volume that moves fluently among various modes of poetic expression: the lyric, one of his most beautiful and assured; the gritty, one of his most familiar; and the comic, one of his most form-splitting. He can be darkly profound and lovingly comic, bitingly indicative, and compassionately pained. Gillis writes poems that measure our cultural morass with the love, pity, and sarcasm that it deserves. The volume is set in the terms Hamlet finally comes to at the end of the play: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow ... the readiness is all." Gillis concludes: So make sure you're up to speed when, at sunset or dawn, worms vex the seed, crows shadow the corn. The shadowy threats that appear throughout the volume are met in "Late Spring" by how the beauty of "a green / world moves through // us in slow motion." They are also answered by the "quake" of recognition in a poem like "The Dote" that leaves the poet's "mind in the air." Yet, the darkness remains. We readers must also be ready, and, as the poet insists, we "know this, / the oncoming day, is nothing / but the night's brief parenthesis."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alan Gillis is from Belfast and now lives in Scotland, where he teaches English at the University of Edinburgh. He has published Scapegoat and Other Poems (2016) in the US, which is a compendium of poems from previous volumes published in Ireland; Scapegoat (2014); Here Comes the Night (2010); Hawks and Doves (2007); and Somebody, Somewhere (2004), which won the Strong Award for Best First Collection in Ireland. He has also been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wake Forest University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1930630948
• ISBN 13: 9781930630949
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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