Firewriting, and Other Poems - Muckle, John
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This is John Muckle's first poetry collection. The book's main feature is the long title poem, in which the author imagines that the German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin escaped death by his own hand on the French-Spanish border in 1940 - his revolver misfired - and has survived as a kind of wanderer and witness. After the war he returned to Paris, but later moved to London where, in the 'now' of the poem at the age of 120, he is recalling some of his ideas - and confessing - to a nurse, whom he imagines might also be a student of his work. The poem is a personal view of Benjamin, and the…mehr

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This is John Muckle's first poetry collection. The book's main feature is the long title poem, in which the author imagines that the German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin escaped death by his own hand on the French-Spanish border in 1940 - his revolver misfired - and has survived as a kind of wanderer and witness. After the war he returned to Paris, but later moved to London where, in the 'now' of the poem at the age of 120, he is recalling some of his ideas - and confessing - to a nurse, whom he imagines might also be a student of his work. The poem is a personal view of Benjamin, and the author hopes that any reader unfamiliar with his writings might begin with 'Illuminations' and embark on a long journey with one of the great radical thinkers of any century. The remainder of the book features many of Muckle's trademark narrative poems.
Autorenporträt
John Muckle is a fiction writer, poet and critic. He is the author of six books of fiction, including 'The Cresta Run' (Galloping Dog Press, 1987), 'Cyclomotors', an acclaimed short illustrated novel set in the early 1950s (available through Shearsman Books), and the novels 'London Brakes' (Shearsman, 2010), 'My Pale Tulip' (2012), 'Falling Through' (2017), and the short-story collection 'Late Driver' (2020). His first full-length poetry collection, 'Firewriting and Other Poems', appeared from Shearsman in 2005, and a sequel, 'Mirrorball', came out in 2018. 'Little White Bull' (2014), his study of British fiction in the 1950s and 60s, remapped its chosen period in an original way. In the eighties he launched the Paladin Poetry imprint and was general editor of its flagship anthology, 'The New British Poetry' (eds. D'Aguiar, Allnutt, Edwards, Mottram, 1988). He lives in North London, and works as a teacher.