Finding Kristallnacht in an optician's chart, flushing heresy from a Michelin guide, procuring princesses courtesy of furnishings catalogues and constructing a guided tour of Bedlam from the names of British moths, Alasdair Paterson brings a Byzantine range of techniques-cut-and-mosaic, palimpsest dialectic, diplomatic transplant and induced mutation-to a series of innocent texts, most without a prior thought of poetry in their heads, to build an indispensible vademecum for the imperially and post-imperially inclined.
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By H. Mehta
Format:Paperback
I was given this book by a friend for my birthday. I totally fell in love with it. It is Wonderful. The author is a truly brilliant story teller. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
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By Salt
Format:Paperback
James Sutherland-Smith put me on to this on Facebook and I bought it on his recommendation. Let me recommend this to you. It's a fantastic book, filled with really great poems derived from a wide range of techniques and interests, passions and meditations -- it's the real thing. Approachable but experimental, technically adept and serious, but playful and filled with warmth and a passion for the world and what's in it. It's a book that displays the authors wide-ranging interests in things, the thinginess of things and being here, in the world, alive and engaged. It's mesmerizing in terms of language, and intensely pleasurable.
I urge you to buy it. You won't be disappointed.
I urge you to buy it. You won't be disappointed.
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By Aphelion
Format:Paperback
and thirty years passed
i put down my pen; yet i
can still ride my bike
i put down my pen; yet i
can still ride my bike
By roselle
Format:Paperback
In the poetry world the debate rages: should poems be accessible? Or does that make them slight? This is that all-too-rare phenomenon: a collection that refuses either label. These poems give up more of themselves the more you read them; Paterson has the poise and the wisdom to offer us just enough to allow the spark to jump the gap, without laying it all out bare. I loved the fact that there is an occasional quality of mystery - often playful mystery - and a deliciously ironic tone to some of them. The form he uses - everything in lower case - and the titles, each of which begins with 'on', add something extra to this: both a sense of continuity, and a hiatus between title and body that allows our intuition and imagination to do some of the work of association.
Having read each poem in this book several times at first reading I am already sensing a deepening of my enjoyment and understanding as I begin it again. I recommend this book for its rarity value, intelligence, iconoclasm, wit, scholarliness, erudition, diction and the wonderful footnotes. AND - it's also a very good read!
Having read each poem in this book several times at first reading I am already sensing a deepening of my enjoyment and understanding as I begin it again. I recommend this book for its rarity value, intelligence, iconoclasm, wit, scholarliness, erudition, diction and the wonderful footnotes. AND - it's also a very good read!
By zencymru
Format:Paperback
Brilliant cover, the contents better still. A voice that's sardonic, spare, splenetic: silex scintillans. I remember it well.
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