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Blood Feather

- ‘He writes with Proustian elan and Nabokovian delight’ John Banville
Af: Patrick McGuinness Engelsk Paperback

Blood Feather

- ‘He writes with Proustian elan and Nabokovian delight’ John Banville
Af: Patrick McGuinness Engelsk Paperback
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In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves

''This is McGuinness''s best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd''
SUNDAY TIMES

In Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an ever-present ghost - while lost beyond recall.

The first section, ''Squeeze the Day'' - a series of deeply moving poems about the author''s mother, displaced between languages - investigates her illness and death; how being bilingual is like having a double, a second self; how each self haunts the other. ''The Noises Things Make When They Leave'' elegises today''s post-industrial landscapes, their people and professions: sidelined by literature, bypassed by globalisation. The final sequence, ''After the Flood'', links the book''s themes, seeking a way of seeing things for the first time and the last time simultaneously. Exploring the gaps between languages and between our selves in language, Patrick McGuinness dreams of a new tense in which the world''s losses are redeemed:

It''s the anniversary of my mother''s death,
and it''s my mother''s birthday -
the day she short-circuited the tenses,
made the current flow both ways.

A clear-sighted, intimate new poetry collection from the prizewinning author of Other People''s Countries and Throw me to the Wolves.

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In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves

''This is McGuinness''s best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd''
SUNDAY TIMES

In Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an ever-present ghost - while lost beyond recall.

The first section, ''Squeeze the Day'' - a series of deeply moving poems about the author''s mother, displaced between languages - investigates her illness and death; how being bilingual is like having a double, a second self; how each self haunts the other. ''The Noises Things Make When They Leave'' elegises today''s post-industrial landscapes, their people and professions: sidelined by literature, bypassed by globalisation. The final sequence, ''After the Flood'', links the book''s themes, seeking a way of seeing things for the first time and the last time simultaneously. Exploring the gaps between languages and between our selves in language, Patrick McGuinness dreams of a new tense in which the world''s losses are redeemed:

It''s the anniversary of my mother''s death,
and it''s my mother''s birthday -
the day she short-circuited the tenses,
made the current flow both ways.

A clear-sighted, intimate new poetry collection from the prizewinning author of Other People''s Countries and Throw me to the Wolves.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 80
ISBN-13: 9780224098311
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0224098314
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 4 maj 2023
Længde: 13mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 131mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 4 maj 2023
Forfatter(e): Patrick McGuinness
Forfatter(e) Patrick McGuinness

Kategori Forside

ISBN-13 9780224098311

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 80

Udgave

Længde 13mm

Bredde 197mm

Højde 131mm

Udg. Dato 4 maj 2023

Oplagsdato 4 maj 2023

Forlag Vintage Publishing

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