The Guest from the Future (Paperback)

It represents what Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Laureate in literature, called art's power of "redress." Stallworthy's poems evoke women survivors; the poet Anna Akhmatova; the painter Francoise Cilot, Picasso's lover; a survivor of the siege of Stalingrad; and a woman who escaped war torn Poland, carrying in her bedding-roll a coverlet she was embroidering for her fiance and herself. This refugee's story bears a curious inverse relationship with that of the "Lady of Shalott": Tennyson's patrician artist in her tower, forced to choose between the world and its "shadows" in her mirror opts for the world and is destroyed; Stallworthy's peasant artist engages with the world and is sustained by an art that reflects that engagement.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1997
First published:	September 1997
Editors:	Jon Stallworthy
Authors:	Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Dimensions:	216 x 141 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	70
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-31693-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-393-31693-9
Barcode:	9780393316933

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