Gregory Woods

An Ordinary Dog (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

An Ordinary Dog is a carnival of clashing forms and tones, all deployed with a cool wit and technical precision. They bear sceptical witness to - what? To the affecting ordinariness of human needs, to the vanity of human wishes. Woods writes about desire: sacred and profane, serene and frantic, refined and grubby - often betrayed by cussedness, always complicated by external events.

Looking back to times of crisis when history is endured and re-invented, An Ordinary Dog explores where myth degenerates into faith and reason falters. The mood veers between equanimity and desperation; the focus between detachment and intimate involvement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847779137
• Artikelnr.: 38355319

Autorenporträt

Gregory Woods was born in Egypt in 1953 and grew up in Ghana. He began his teaching career at the University of Salerno and now works at Nottingham Trent University, where he was appointed Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies in 1998. His was the first such appointment in the United Kingdom. He was awarded a PhD by the University of East Anglia in 1983, and a DLitt in 2006. In addition to his poetry collections, all published by Carcanet Press, he is also the author of a number of critical books, including Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987) and A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998), both from Yale University Press. He has been a member of the board of directors of East Midlands Arts and is a Fellow of the English Association.