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Bezig met laden... Sentenced to Life (2015)door Clive James
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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. .His delicate use of the English language is inspiring. Each one of these poems would take an entire volume if it was prose. If your poetry has to rhyme and be amusing then this isn't for you. If you want an insight into the state of human life, from a man who knows that we all fail one way or another, then this is for you. Poignant, engaging and truth to experience in every line . This moving collection is , in many respects, a painful emotional read , yet, at one and the same time , strangely comforting too . Lyrical with beautiful and memorable imagery , these are poems you will return to time and time over . A triumph geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In his new collection of poems - several of which have already become famous before their book publication - Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what is treasurable and memorable in our time here. Again and again, James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric accomplishment: he is also an immensely wise one, who delights in using poetic form to bring a razor-sharp focus to his thought. Miraculously, these poems see James writing with his insight and energy not only undiminished but positively charged by his situation: Sentenced to Life represents a career high point from one of the greatest literary intelligences of the age. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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That’s what happened to Clive James, and this collection of short poems is the result of the focussed mind’s ruminations. There is the looking back, the stocktaking that is natural at such a time. Many poems are rueful over the breakdown of his marriage, something for which the poet takes the full blame.
James employs plain speech in his poems. In many of them, this is effective, but at times it lapses to cliche, as in “Balcony Scene,” for instance, in which the poet describes himself as “old as the hills,” his motion like paint drying.
Such lapses aside, the poems are affecting and worth reading. ( )