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Legion
David Harsent
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Description for Legion
Paperback. Legion Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120.
The title-sequence of David Harsent's new collection of poems, Legion, offers a report from an unnamed war, in which various images of conflict accrue without cohering, as if the reader is locked inside the crisis together with the protagonists. In a series of momentary and abruptly discontinuous images, laconic despatches from a war-zone, a fictional testimony begins to take shape - an array of different voices giving witness to war and the consequences of war. In its formal mastery of the poetic sequence, Legion is a distinguished successor to David Harsent's previous collection, Marriage.
The title-sequence of David Harsent's new collection of poems, Legion, offers a report from an unnamed war, in which various images of conflict accrue without cohering, as if the reader is locked inside the crisis together with the protagonists. In a series of momentary and abruptly discontinuous images, laconic despatches from a war-zone, a fictional testimony begins to take shape - an array of different voices giving witness to war and the consequences of war. In its formal mastery of the poetic sequence, Legion is a distinguished successor to David Harsent's previous collection, Marriage.
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571228096
SKU
V9780571228096
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About David Harsent
David Harsent was born in Devonshire. He has published eight collections of poetry, including a Selected Poems in 1989. His last collection, Marriage, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Poetry.
Reviews for Legion
"'... surely one of the most exciting poetry collections to appear for some time, and his best book to date' Independent on Sunday"