Crisis Actor: Poems

Ryan, Declan

ISBN 10: 0374615993 / ISBN 13: 9780374615994

Edité par Farrar Straus Giroux, 2025

Paperback. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780374615994B

Synopsis :

The brilliant and bracing debut collection of poetry from Declan Ryan: a writer, critic, and fierce new literary voice.

Declan Ryan's Crisis Actor chronicles various kinds of failures and farewells. It is peopled by faded heroes and deferential devotees, a hanged donkey and a bloated rat, solitary bachelors and disillusioned youths--these are the watchers, not the players. The poems are awash in rueful self-accusation and laconic skepticism. There are touching elegies, reportage, and bruised, wary replayings. A blistering sequence about boxers and their fates weaves through the collection. The overwhelming sense is of life going on elsewhere, the halcyon days and brightness of years long past. This is the aftermath of being one who--in Matthew Arnold's words--"has reached his utmost limits and finds . . . himself far less than he had imagined himself."

But there are still flashes of camaraderie, of stars aligning: lunchtimes in sunlit garden squares, languorous afternoons in pubs cheering for hard-won triumphs. These precious, precarious moments point to how we might reclaim potential, discover human connection in times of defeat or despair, and reach toward grace and redemption.

À propos de l'auteur: Declan Ryan was born in Mayo, Ireland. His essays and reviews have appeared in journals including The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The Observer, Times Literary Supplement, The Baffler, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry and Boxing News. He lives in London.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Crisis Actor: Poems
Éditeur : Farrar Straus Giroux
Date d'édition : 2025
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : New
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette