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The Extasie (Paperback)
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The Extasie (Paperback)
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Loot Price R362
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The Extasie is a compelling book of love poems with its lyrical
roots deep in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the rural
traditions of the nineteenth. Among New Zealand poet John Gallas's
spirit guides are John Clare and, in particular, Wyatt and Donne,
writers from our poetry's wittiest and most ecstatic age. But the
book's heart is set firmly in the twenty-first century. Its two
parts follow the seasons of a revelatory love through different
weathers and forms. The poems follow the sequence of their
composition, so we register the intimacies, forced separations,
complexities and climaxes as on a lyrical fever chart. Things are
never still or static, everywhere is growth and wonder - birds,
tides, skies, trees, sheep, planets and flowers: a celebration of
the natural world, and a seeing together. The eye of the poet is
always turned to the world: how the world is seen and felt is a
sufficient record of the partners' intimacy. Gallas's language is
marked by vigorous verbs, arresting inversions, a world of process
and mutation, of transformation about one constant belief. It is
hard to find poetry so at ease and at home with the particular
detail of rural England, of a Lincolnshire and Norfolk imbued with
their own histories and a new-made sense of place.
General
Imprint: |
Carcanet Press Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2021 |
Authors: |
John Gallas
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Dimensions: |
216 x 135 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
88 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80017-085-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-80017-085-8 |
Barcode: |
9781800170858 |
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