That Person Himself

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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A fox hears voices. A dogfox of indeterminate gender careers round desert USA, Hiroshima & Nagasaki in stolen cars & on foot. A barkingdog talks out loud & sings. A demotic fox listens & listens. A coyotefox lies. A coyote speaks truth. A kitfox reads the signs & tunes the car radio. Kitsune eats & drinks. They are all that person himself, who is also summoner of kingfishers, bringer of acorns, old compound eye, the one geese kiss & the drinker of aftershock. That person himself wanders in atom-bomb test sites, mooches in nuclear weapon fallout, from bar to deer park, from festival to razed landscape.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-05-15
Mått152 x 229 x 6 mm
Vikt177 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor112
FörlagShearsman Books
ISBN9781848610385

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Gerry Loose lives in Glasgow. His background is in horticulture and agriculture, and has farmed in Kerry and market-gardened both in Ireland and in Scotland, where he trained in conservation and ecology. His writing began to coincide with his other interests in the 1990s, when he was made Poet-in-Residence at Glasgow's Botanic Gardens, and created a Poetry Garden. In 2004, as part of Entente Cordiale 100, he was sent to Montpellier, France, to fulfill a similar role in France's oldest botanic garden. In 2006 he was Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow, living at Stevenson's old house, where he will complete a manusctript dealing with his travels in "nuclear" landscapes: the New Mexican deserts, the Mojave, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Faslane in Scotland, although entry into the latter landscape is impossible. This particular project led from a project, and the poet's own inclinations, where he brought a persimmon tree from japan to Glasgow Botanics. The tree was grown from the seed of persimmon tree that survived the Nagasaki A-bomb.