This startling debut from a young British poet traces the paths from past to present, the lost to the living, seeking familiarity in a world of "false trails and disappearing acts." Here, relatives, friends, and other absences are coaxed into life and urgently pressed on the reader as they surface, in the flesh. At the heart of the collection lies the sonnet sequence "Home," a slant look at the lives of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, intersected by more recent, sometimes unsettling, personal portraits.
Clear-eyed and sensuous, these are poems linked by a strong sense of place and presence, of history captured in an irrevocable moment.
| ISBN: | 9780393345728 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2015 |
| Author: | Adam ORiordan |
| Publisher: | W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 49 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
This startling debut from a young British poet traces the paths from past to present, the lost to the living, seeking familiarity in a world of "false trails and disappearing acts." Here, relatives, friends, and other absences are coaxed into life and urgently pressed on the reader as they surface, in the flesh. At the heart of the collection lies the sonnet sequence "Home," a slant look at the lives of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, intersected by more recent, sometimes unsettling, personal portraits.
In the Flesh features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
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In the Flesh was written by Adam ORiordan and published by W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
In the Flesh has 49 pages