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Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the 'insomniac' motorway; industrialised apples against wrinkled windfalls - his poems argue for bewilderment and 'the slight bruise of doubt'. Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend's suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves. There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty. The book is full of such traces, delicate and fugitive: the poet's grandmother retrieved through her ninety-year-old bookmark of rose petals; the unvoiced suggestion of his mother's voice on an answerphone; the memory of a vanished native chief in a Canadian mountain's shadow...

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Pełny tytuł: Birds With A Broken Wing
• Autor: Adam Thorpe
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 80
• EAN: 9780224079440
• ISBN: 0224079441
• ID: 04038663
• Wydawca: Vintage Publishing
• Waga: 110 g
• Wymiary: 201 × 136 × 8 mm
• Data wydania: 17. May 2007

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