Drowning Man Is Never Tall Enough

Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

Av Patrick Lawler

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This is a poetry of excursions: into maps of lost territories, into the thoughts of a man with no legs, into the life of a town marked by disasters.Patrick Lawler moves into the slender lines of shattered glass, the spaces between lyric and narrative, between metamorphosis and mutation. From the artful surface of a Russian novel, rich with symbolism and white bears, to a survivor's unwillingness to immerse himself in life or leave it, the poems in A Drowning Man Is Never Tall Enough hunger for a language beyond the solid, for the fragmentation that makes a scene complete.

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Utgivningsdatum1990-01-01
Mått140 x 216 x 8 mm
Vikt168 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieContemporary Poetry
Antal sidor96
FörlagUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN9780820311586

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