The Italian Visitor (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2013
Authors:	Grey Gowrie
Dimensions:	217 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-1-84777-232-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-84777-232-3
Barcode:	9781847772329

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