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Bluestone: New and Selected Poems

James Lasdun

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Description:A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive bestTwo 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. Lasdun has been winning acclaim since his first collection, 1988’s A Jump Start—Helen Vendler has lauded his ability to give “brisk shape to contemporary and classical events”; The New York Times has praised the “sharp, slicing imagery” of his work. Now, in Bluestone, which selects from all three of his previous collections and includes poems from his fourth, Water Sessions, previously available only in the U.K., readers will be able to appreciate the full sweep of this capacious talent: his delicate wit, his gift for invention, his keen observational eye. It is a gathering that affirms Lasdun’s position as, to quote Anthony Hecht, one of “the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bluestone: New and Selected Poems. To get started finding Bluestone: New and Selected Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive bestTwo 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. Lasdun has been winning acclaim since his first collection, 1988’s A Jump Start—Helen Vendler has lauded his ability to give “brisk shape to contemporary and classical events”; The New York Times has praised the “sharp, slicing imagery” of his work. Now, in Bluestone, which selects from all three of his previous collections and includes poems from his fourth, Water Sessions, previously available only in the U.K., readers will be able to appreciate the full sweep of this capacious talent: his delicate wit, his gift for invention, his keen observational eye. It is a gathering that affirms Lasdun’s position as, to quote Anthony Hecht, one of “the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bluestone: New and Selected Poems. To get started finding Bluestone: New and Selected Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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