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BlueStone: New and Selected Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.00
ISBN13: 9780374535506
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May 5 2015
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive best
Two men grapple with jumper cables, trying to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm; machinery . . . A man on his way to see his therapist encounters a female police officer in an elevator and feels himself regressing to the original essence, the masculine / criminal salt. A teenager is tricked into eating a spoonful of lime pickle by his girlfriend's father. An Englishman in the Catskills ponders the nature of exile, is chased by yellow jackets, gets a haircut. James Lasdun's subjects are often quotidian--but his treatment of them never is. Under his transformative gaze, the familiar becomes strange, the local becomes foreign, and the minor becomes epic.
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