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Far District (Paperback, Main)
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Far District (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R247
Discovery Miles 2 470
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Far District, the transporting debut from the author of House of
Lords and Commons, is structured as the spiritual journey of a
poet-speaker caught between two cultures. As childhood memory is
grafted to the world of imagination - shaped by books, art, music
and travel - the two come together to develop a new vision of what
'home' might offer. 'Far District is a classic, which is to say a
rare and exemplary first book. This book is striking for the way
Ishion Hutchinson's gorgeously textured language - shanty-zinc,
asthmatic whirl, poincianas - stretches over far-reaching
narratives of landscape and culture. With an ear "tuned to the blue
above and below" he captures the physical rhythms of his native
Jamaica as well as the broader, metaphysical rhythms of distance
and displacement, "of [travelling] the narrow bridge separating"
past and present.' PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry 'At once
biography and autobiography, generous with its thinking and
observations . . . the poems are urgent, authentic, deeply felt,
and beautifully shaped. It is rare to find such achievement in a
first collection, where an author writes from a place of humility
in the face of literary tradition. His work possesses high artistic
merit; his love of world literature suffuses his lines and spurs
his ambition. This collection is a true work of alchemy.' Whiting
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