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The Interpretation of Owls - Selected Poems, 1977-2022 (Hardcover)
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The Interpretation of Owls - Selected Poems, 1977-2022 (Hardcover)
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The Interpretation of Owls is a representative selection of one of
the UK's most prolific and respected poets. Edited by Kevin Gardner
in consultation with John Greening himself, this first American
collection showcases highlights of a remarkable forty-year poetic
journey, displaying extraordinary variety and technical skill. The
contents (arranged thematically to illustrate Greening's abiding
interests and influences) comprise more than 250 poems chosen from
twenty individual collections published between 1982 and the
present. Kevin Gardner has also made a welcome selection of
previously uncollected and unpublished work. Readers of John
Greening's accessible and musical lines will find themselves
transported from America to England to Iceland to Ireland, with a
long stay in Egypt and brief stopovers in several other countries.
Passing from the present to the ancient world and back, these poems
reimagine historical figures, look inward at the poetic self, and
explore the very meaning of home. This outward journeying through
time and space is reinforced by a constant questing for spiritual
meaning-reminiscent of T. S. Eliot, whose influence on Greening has
been profound. Though we are unlikely to find him wrestling with
angels, Greening is nevertheless constantly hoping for revelation,
attuned to the numinous, treating creation as sacred, and ready to
find a world of spirituality in history, myth, or even a lump of
East Anglian clay. The Interpretation of Owls features an author's
preface, an editor's introduction, two indexes, and for readers who
want to experience the work in its order of original publication, a
chronological table of contents. Additionally, there is an
invaluable new interview with the poet in which he discusses with
the editor the background to some of the works.
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