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In Transit (Hardcover)
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In Transit (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
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In Transit, Nicholas Pierce's debut poetry collection, charts the
poet's maturation across three sections, each centering on a
different kind of love, from the pedagogical to the romantic to the
familial. Form and subject are inseparable in poems that consider
the complex power dynamic of an older man befriending a younger
one, that draw on such classic texts as Plato's Symposium and
Homer's Odyssey to make sense of the seemingly random encounters
and missed chances that, as one poem puts it, "make up a life." As
the book's title suggests, these poems take place on the move, in
cars, on boats and planes. They find the speaker abroad, as in "The
Death of Argos," a sonnet sequence that invents a new configuration
for the form. Above all, though, the poems of In Transit attempt to
capture a world in flux, turning to form as a stay against the
transitory nature of experience.
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