Grey Gowrie

The Italian Visitor (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the opening poem, an extended elegy for the Cold War’s ambivalent mix of irresponsibility and prosperity, to a concluding short memoir of Robert Lowell, The Italian Visitor is a book about memory. The title sequence, an account of a 1940s’ childhood, unravels time by placing Grey Gowrie’s eight-year-old self in fictional relationship with another poetic hero, Eugenio Montale. The Italian visited 'bankrupt, utilitarian’ Britain in 1948, in his early fifties. There are love songs from the Portuguese, a ballad about the birth of Israel and elegiac poems for those districts of London now occupied mainly by overseas tycoons. Gowrie has also included a selection of the occasional verses he wrote in the years when poetry left him.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
• Seitenzahl: 77
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847777775
• Artikelnr.: 39289014