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Up Late (Hardcover, Main)
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Up Late (Hardcover, Main)
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Loot Price R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
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Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity
and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird
confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship,
the push and pull of daily life. At the book's heart lies the title
sequence, a profound meditation on a father's dying, the
reverberations of which echo throughout in poems that interrogate
inheritance and legacy, illness and justice, accounts of what is
lost and what, if anything, can be retrieved. Laird is a poet
capable of heading off in any and every direction, where layers of
association transport us from a clifftop in County Cork to the
library steps in New York's Washington Square, from a face-off
between Freud and Michelangelo's Moses to one between the poet and
a squirrel in a Kilburn garden. There is conflation and
conflagration, rage and fire, neither of which are seen as
necessarily destructive. But there is great tenderness, too, a
fondness for what grows between the cracks, especially those
glimpses into the unadulterated world of childhood, before the
knowledge or accumulation of loss, where everything is still at
stake and infinite, 'the darkness under the cattle grid'.
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