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Bezig met laden... Landing Lightdoor Don Paterson
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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. http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/travel/poetry-made-me-do-it-my-trip-to-the-... “One morning/you hover on the threshold, knowing for certain/the first touch of the light will finish you.” From "The Forest of the Suicides": There it roots, and drives up through the clay // to grow into the shape of its own anguish. (p. 15) From "A Talking Book": ...First, to those rare birds for whom all journeyings are heavenwards, who always wing it, mapless and alone... (p. 28) By all means, turn the page or close the book. But first, imagine how this world would look were it not duly filtered, cropped and strained through that pinhole camera you call a brain by whose inverted dim imaginings you presume to question it. So many things are hidden from you. (32) It is always dusk at the crossing, whatever your watch says. (32) ...the chains of now, the tyranny of here...(33) The present is a trick played in your head. (33) From "The Last Waltz": ...What work is so defeated by itself, as all our scribbling in the air? (39) From "My Love": It's not the lover that we love, but love itself, love as in nothing... ...we often think love's something we share; but we're always wrong. (45) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2003 Landing Light is Don Paterson's most accomplished and spiritual collection to date. In these poems, he guides us down the labyrinths of our deepest and most private concerns, pursuing the intimacy that the spoken - as well as the printed - word brings. Ceaselessly inquiring, deftly tuned into the emotional crackle of the world, Paterson explores the swings of light and dark that mark our most troubling feelings: utterance and silence, disclosure and concealment, and ultimately the need to both renew and to face finality. 'I couldn't get Don Paterson's brilliant Landing Light out of my head.' Spectator 'The most animated and animating volume of new poems I have read for years.' Times Literary Supplement Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I really enjoyed "The Rat" though, (http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/rat) which is amusing considering its theme. Like the poet within that poem I don't understand the craft enough to enjoy the rest of the collection. ( )