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Bezig met laden... This Changes Thingsdoor Claire Askew
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I picked up this varied and vigorous collection of poems by an Edinburgh poet because it was recommended by the staff of Golden Hare Books, an independent bookseller in the same city. I started reading it immediately, continued it on the trans-Atlantic flight back to Houston from Scotland, and finished it when I returned home. It’s a delight. Askew’s subjects, emotional response, and points of view are wide ranging: a house fire, Barcelona seen by the tourist and the resident poor, what it’s like to be a poltergeist, the disconsolate loneliness of small town life where everything remains the same, travel on the American west coast, her love for her grandmother and a collection of grandmother’s sayings, “What a right bag of washing / Bent as a nine-bob note / Twined as a bag of weasels,” even one I heard from my American born Scotch grandmother, “Six of one and a half dozen of another.” ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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This changes things is Claire Askew's first full collection, coming after years of work in Scotland's flourishing poetry and spoken word scene. Her poems focus on the lives and experiences of women - particularly the socially or economically marginalised - at pains both to empathise and to recognise the limits of this empathy. They embody a need to acknowledge and challenge the poet's privileged position as documenter and outsider, a responsibility to the poem's political message and to that message's human subject. This changes things draws much of its strength from this exploration of inbetweenness. Claire Askew's purposeful deployment of objects, lighting effects and liminal spaces implicates her reader in the poem's argument, holds up a mirror and asks us to pay attention. The book's romantic relationships, depictions of frustrated travel or social mobility, are bound up in its awareness of the systems of power that permit no true state of innocence. Even the final poem, 'Hydra' - with its celebration of the body and its senses - cannot ultimately allow us off the hook. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)821.92Literature English English poetry 1900- 2000-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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