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Bezig met laden... To the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Poemsdoor Carol Ann Duffy
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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. Some lovely poems. I was slightly disappointed as many of the poems mentioned the moon in passing, rather than what I hoped which was poetry where the moon was the main theme. ( ) To the Moon is a mixed bag, like most poem anthologies. This selection by Carol Ann Duffy (the former Poet Laureate) has an interesting theme (the moon, obviously) but because of the variety of the poets there is no singular approach to that theme. For some of the poets, the moon is a mystery or a source of romance; for others it is cruel. For some it is central to their poem and for others it is just there to provide some colour. When one segment of the book did coalesce around a single approach – that is, when the modern poets started to address the Moon Landing – it became much more fascinating. Regardless, it is an evocative book throughout. The silver satellite has "a talented loneliness", as Duffy puts it in her own contribution (pg. 164), and whilst the book does not mention it, I could not help but hear the cold-warm strains of Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' throughout. Some of the finest poetic minds are in this book, trying to grasp what the moon means to us, and you close the book "still feeling what it was like to dwell in that light" (pg. 157). geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Carol Ann Duffy's collection celebrating our timeless fascination with the Moon.Editing Answering Back, in which living poets replied to poems from the past, I was astonished to see how many of the poems, old and new, referred to the moon. I then started to keep a record of such references, and from my notebook, I see that in one morning alone I came across no fewer than nine poems, from the likes of Coleridge, Graves, Rosetti and Rowe - and it was this selection that initially inspired To the Moon. There's something incredibly moving, and electrifying, to read a poem from the Chinese Book of Odes, written around 500 BC, and to feel both our distance from and our closeness to the past, and the Moon itself: I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, I saw him coming on the southern road. My heart lays down its load. In collecting together poems such as these - poems that span continents and centuries - To the Moon shows what it is to be human; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. The poems it contains give us a real and profound sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer are - like space itself - infinite.' Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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