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Mapping the Delta
George Szirtes
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Description for Mapping the Delta
Paperback. New collection of poems set in the Delta, with The Yellow Room at its core, a sequence of mirror poems contemplating the Jewishness of the poet's father. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 338. New collection of poems set in the Delta, with The Yellow Room at its core, a sequence of mirror poems contemplating the Jewishness of the poet's father. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 338. Signed, dated and inscribed to previous owner and fellow poet by author on title page
The Delta is a densely populated place. Whole countries inhabit it, exercising their powers and authority, presenting their offers of complicity and compliance. Individuals move through the night and come upon themselves in its mirrors. Dreamers and fantasists repopulate its hidden corners: Rimbaud, Bruno Schultz, William Blake, Arthur Schnitzler and the physicist Dennis Gabor lay claim to their own visions of it. Animals gaze at their human companions who gaze back. They try to puzzle each other out, looking to climb into each other's eyes. They court each other, desire their own species, are captivated both by each other's and ... Read more
The Delta is a densely populated place. Whole countries inhabit it, exercising their powers and authority, presenting their offers of complicity and compliance. Individuals move through the night and come upon themselves in its mirrors. Dreamers and fantasists repopulate its hidden corners: Rimbaud, Bruno Schultz, William Blake, Arthur Schnitzler and the physicist Dennis Gabor lay claim to their own visions of it. Animals gaze at their human companions who gaze back. They try to puzzle each other out, looking to climb into each other's eyes. They court each other, desire their own species, are captivated both by each other's and ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780373201
SKU
KSG0013748
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Ref
99-1
About George Szirtes
George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948, and came to England with his family after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. He was educated in England, training as a painter, and has always written in English. In recent years he has worked as a translator of Hungarian literature, producing editions of such writers as Otto Orban, Zsuzsa Rakovszky and Agnes Nemes ... Read more
Reviews for Mapping the Delta
'A brilliantly virtuosic collection of deeply felt poems concerned with the personal impact of the dislocations and betrayals of history. The judges were impressed by the unusual degree of formal pressure exerted by Szirtes on his themes of memory and the impossibility of forgetting.' - Douglas Dunn, on Reel, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize; 'A major contribution to post-war ... Read more