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Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt Modern Poets)
 
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Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt Modern Poets) (Hardcover)
by Simon Barraclough (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)
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Product details
  • Hardcover: 80 pages
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing (15 April 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844713156
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844713158
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 444,109 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #25 in  Books > Biography > Social & Health Issues > Cultural History > Australian
    #90 in  Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Poetry > Genres > Love

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Synopsis
'Los Alamos Mon Amour' explodes in the heart of the desert and unleashes a chain reaction of intense, moving, erotic and often darkly comical poems. Marlon Brando, Saddam Hussein, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Queen Mother, Hannibal Lecter, and Yuri Gagarin wander through the blasted landscape encountering Italian wolves, Desert Orchid and the London Whale along the way. Around a core of searing love poems, 'Los Alamos Mon Amour' embraces passion, nostalgia, fear and wonder. A lost parent inspires terror and compassion by turns; madness intrudes upon the mundane; and St. Paul's Cathedral mutates in a sequence of bizarre love letters to Wren's iconic masterpiece. From traditional sonnets to a narrative constructed entirely from film poster taglines, the poems are formally and aesthetically restless, nosing around London, New York, Italy, and Yorkshire, watched over by the spirits of Lowell, Berryman, Hughes, Hitchcock, Mario Bava and Dario Argento.The poems veer from the terrifying to the tender, the comic to the apocalyptic, the lustful to the philosophical, and the cosmic to the domestic - often within the same line.

An energetic and entertaining new voice in contemporary poetry: profound and playful by turns.

About the Author
Simon Barraclough was born and raised in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and has lived in London since 1996. He studied literature at Nottingham and Sussex Universities and now works as a freelance writer, tackling a wide range of subjects and formsÊincluding non-fiction; comedy sketches and articles; reviews;Êmuseum audio-guides;ÊsoftwareÊguides andÊwebsites. He won the poetry section of the London Writers Competition in 2000 and his work has appeared in Poetry Review, The Manhattan Review, Time Out, Magma and the anthologies In the Criminals Cabinet, Unfold and Ask for It by Name.


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