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Struck

Struck

Saunders, Anna

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0957329059
ISBN13: 9780957329058
Publisher: Pindrop Pr
Published: Mar 1 2014
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Struck is an intricate weave of images held before reality, its threads held together by a recurrent series of physical materials and ideas - birch, skin, writing, above all silk which describes the weave itself. There is too a sustained symbolism of colour - of brown and blue and grey - a symbolism which, though it never hangs heavy over the poems, is nevertheless strong enough to cope with the weightiest subjects: love, physical nature, violence and - in a powerful and lucid closing sequence about the poet's father - death. Not a single image or symbol is wasted or forgotten. What stays with you at the end is not so much the subjects or the myths the poems draw on - Danae, Zeus, Van Gogh, the figures from Chagall, compelling as those are, - as the astonishingly original and fresh technique of a poet of quite remarkable gifts.' Bernard O'Donoghue

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