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Soft Sift (Faber Poetry) (Paperback)

by Mark Ford (Author)
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  • Paperback: 51 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (8 May 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571207812
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571207817
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 0.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 552,742 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A collection of poems that exhibit enormous casual elegance of mind and style, at the same time being friendly, touching and funny.

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We are pleased to announce the publication of eleven more titles into the new typographic look. The specifications for the books are high -beautifully produced, they all have flaps and are sewn and printed in Italy. The latest batch represents some of the core titles of the backlist (Philip Larkin's Collected Poems, Ted Hughes's New Selected Poems, James Joyce's Poems and Shorter Writings) along with key, single volumes that should be part of any poetry lover's library (and whose reissue, in the form in which they were first published, will give a whole new generation the pleasure of coming to the books as original readers).

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5.0 out of 5 stars weird & sometimes wonderful, 5 April 2003
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i bought this book in 2001 while i was travelling through ireland and hated it at first. i think i was offended by the title--ripping off one of my favotite hopkins passages like that seemed needlessly showy. but when i saw that "soft sift" has recently been given a u.s. release by harcourt, i decided to give it another try--and i now find myself strangely charmed by it. i see nothing in it to justify calling mark ford an american philip larkin (larkin himself, i'm sure, would not appreciate the comparison), but to call him an english john ashbery is not all wrong. thing is, i've never been much of an ashbery fan, but i'm loving mark ford. they share a postmodern sensibility, i guess: that sense of the isolation of own's own existence, but the implacability of ford's disjointed imagery is somehow more appealing, and you enjoy the process of reading his poems even as they seem totally incomprehensible. they offer flashes of ordinary life--sometimes more vivid than their language seems to deserve--of what eliot called "the boredom, and the horror, and the glory."

if you like mark ford's work, you may also enjoy the american poet forrest gander.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Original and moving - some very beautiful poems, 6 Jun 2001
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This is an excellent collection of poetry. The poems have a quality rarely encountered . I would thoroughly recommend it.
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