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Holy Toledo! (Paperback)
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Holy Toledo! (Paperback)
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Shortlisted for the 2017 Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize For Second
Collections. Sometime during the twentieth century, the
self-mythology of the literary critic fused with that of the
cowboy: lone outriders practising a defunct trade. In Holy Toldedo!
John Clegg tracks the critic's silhouette over the dangerous,
sun-drenched landscapes of New Mexico, California, Nashville, Utah,
Oxford, Cambridge, and London. Here is Donald Davie listening to
gospel radio in a Nashville taxi, and here is F. R. Leavis standing
on a chair, 'unscrewing instead the world from round the
lightbulb'. Vistas of bristlecone and citrus groves, pocked with
fruit flies and rain birds, fuse with the glib-core of Oxbridge
England, the university science labs where 'all three entrances
felt like the back way'. Holy Toledo! is a history of English
literary criticism in the twentieth century, a bestiary of the
American Southwest, an unreliable guide to the desert. Generous,
humorous, happily askew, Clegg's first Carcanet collection signals
the flourishing of an 'emerging' poet as a major voice.
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