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Sound Archive (Paperback, New)
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Sound Archive (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R221
Discovery Miles 2 210
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Nerys Williams deftly employs modernist techniques in her
innovative new collection of poems, Sound Archives. The reader is
enticed by hints and clues, by tone and rhythm, by fragment and
exclamation through themes that run from a painting by Gwen John,
to 'Conversations with Cocteau', from 'Methane Sonata' to 'Global
Warriors'. Often a poem will evolve as a description of a landscape
or setting such as Caldy Island, or 'Cater's Starstruck Diner,
L.A.' or even as an argument as in 'The Pedagogical poet'. With her
philosophical and critical cast of mind these poems are as much
about perceptions and values as they are about their subjects, they
build sounds-scapes of imagery, veering away from straight-forward
narrative. They, as one poem says, 'murder the discursive', in
order to eschew cliche. She also uses humour and satire to subvert
our expectations of say, a piece ostensibly about heartbreak. She
often uses the imperative to challenge our compliance as in 'How to
MakeThings Disappear'. Williams confronts our preconceptions about
what it might mean to be a woman writing against the background of
two formidable traditions: that of Welsh-speaking Wales and of
English literature. A thoughtful, subtle and fascinating first
collection.
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