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Learning to Sleep (Paperback)
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Learning to Sleep (Paperback)
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Loot Price R344
Discovery Miles 3 440
You Save R39 (10%)
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Lucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of
poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in
between: the charmed darkness. Several ghosts haunt Learning to
Sleep, John Burnside's first collection of poetry in four years -
from the author's mother, commemorated in an exquisitely charged
variant on the pastoral elegy, to the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who
wanders an implausible Lincolnshire landscape looking for some sign
of belonging. Throughout the book, the powers and dominions of a
lost pagan ancestry emerge unexpectedly through the gaps in
contemporary life: half-seen and fleeting, but profoundly present.
Behind it all, the figure of Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, marks
Burnside's own attempts to come to terms with the severe sleep
disorder from which he has suffered for years, a condition that
culminated in the recent near-death experience that informs the
latter part of the book. Add to this a series of provocative
meditations on the ways in which we are all harmed by institutions,
from organised religion, or marriage, to the tawdry concepts of
gender and romantic love that subtly govern our personal lives, and
Learning to Sleep reveals Burnside at his most elegiac, while still
retaining a radical pagan's sense of celebration and cultural
independence. 'For my money, John Burnside is by far the best
British poet alive... I read it over and over again, marvelling at
its concision and beauty.' Cressida Connolly, Spectator ** A
SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021**
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