- Paperback: 118 pages
- Publisher: Enitharmon Press (11 July 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904634435
- ISBN-13: 978-1904634430
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.7 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,000,364 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This Is How You Disappear" is Jeremy Reed's most autobiographical book to date, and one in which he celebrates the dead and missing friends who were the formative and enduring influences on his life as a poet.
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Jeremy Reed was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, and read for his PhD at the University of Essex. He is widely acknowledged as the most imaginatively gifted British poet of his generation, praised by Seamus Heaney for his 'rich and careful writing' and by David Lodge for his 'remarkable lyric gift'. His Selected Poems were published by Penguin in 1987. Subsequent collections have been Nineties (Cape 1990), Dicing for Pearls (1990), Pop Stars (1994), Sweet Sister Lyric (1996), Saint Billie (2001) and Duck and Sally Inside (2004), all from Enitharmon Press. He has also published Heartbreak Hotel (Orion 2002), a verse biography of Elvis Presley. Reed has received a major Gregory Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, as well as the Poetry Society's Translation Award for his translations of Montale (Bloodaxe, 1991). He has also produced distinctive translations of Novalis and Jean Cocteau. As a novelist and essayist, Reed's books include the novels Dorian, Red Hot Lipstick and Boy Caesar, and literary essays entitled Madness: The Price of Poetry (Peter Owen, 1989). He has also written Delirium: An Interpretation of Arthur Rimbaud and studies of the musicians Marc Almond, Brian Jones and Scott Walker. Jeremy Reed lives and works in London. He is a full-time writer.
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What can one say about Jeremy Reed . . .,
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This review is from: This is How You Disappear: A Book of Elegies (Paperback)
he doesn't go in for sentimentality, he doesn't do cliche. And so every superlative that comes to mind seems glaringly either one or the other.
This is a marvelous book of poems, filled with the customary Reed dazzle and dare, touched with creative magic, with genius. At the conclusion of each poem I felt as though I had glimpsed the defining core, the identifying light, of each remembered individual. A book of elegies, deeply moving yet without being at all depressing, utterly candid, yet for me always positive even when I read through tears: PAULA STRATTON I come to meet you twenty years too late, Temazipam spilled all over the bed like a pearl necklace shattered on its string at Chester Gardens, you already dead, your red curls stabbing the white sheet, your books and things. The Glass Bead Game, scattered around you, and your goblin ring ... (Jeremy Reed) If you're considering buying this book, do. Treat yourself to a slice of the divine: PEOPLE COME AND GO The dead are transparent. They're light on light, programmed into their separate energies. Big purple thunder clouds surf through the night. The living never outnumber the dead. The diva's melody springs back to mind: it's Gloomy Sunday; he retrieves the thread and hears the sea leave white shoes on the beach. He lives inside the moment. It is round and almost orange and just out of reach. (Jeremy Reed) Those last two lines could have been written by Jeremy Reed about himself. If you know his work then you know there's no risk and if you don't perhaps I should warn you, there's one: he'll get under your skin, he is addictive . . . a habit I intend to feed for the rest of my life.
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