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Love Letter to an Imaginary Girlfriend (Paperback)
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'When I write I take things from everywhere / like a magpie and
twist them.' The lyrical verve, wit and tenderness of Love Letter
to an Imaginary Girlfriend are signature qualities of Kenny
Knight's poetry. He writes about lived experiences noticeably free
of the self-important theorising in plentiful supply elsewhere in
the House of Poesy. This does not indicate any sort of abandonment
of artifice, that necessity in poetry like this is of a different
kind. The artistry here is absorbed in the exchanges of human
voices and graced with a magpie poetics, 'while the wind blows off
the Atlantic/like one of Bob Dylan's songs.' This is also a world
of the bright prospect at hand, of vivid childhood memory,
rock'n'roll youth and intoxicating discoveries. It reaches out on
'three thousand miles of soggy paper/a poem that begins in
Honicknowle/ and ends on Olson's doorstep in Massachusetts.' This
requires that the sea-soaked paper holds out long enough to get us
there. We might just make it, transported by 'that giraffe/driving
a steam roller' pausing 'to let the shadow/of a crow and a swan/fly
over the zebra crossing/outside the greengrocer's/at West Park.'
Finally, Love Letter to an Imaginary Girlfriend, is a poetry of a
particular type of flaneur, aware of time passing and engaged in a
dialogue with a multitude of personae, of the self and others. Here
is the poet in Plymouth encountering Eric Dolphy, the undercover
cop, Geoffrey Hill, Buddy Holly, the supermarket worker, Cy
Twombly, Van Gogh, Ornette Coleman, Pink Floyd, Matisse and Don
McClean.
General
Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2022 |
Authors: |
Kenny Knight
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
102 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-814-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-84861-814-X |
Barcode: |
9781848618145 |
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