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Some Times
Harry Guest
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Description for Some Times
Paperback. Deals with memory, including the tricks it plays. This book features the poems that seek to revive happy, confusing, sad and celebratory times over the years, from affairs in distant youth to the credit crunch. It also includes translations of some favourite modern poems. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 158.
Memory, including the tricks it plays, is this book's overriding theme. The poems seek to revive happy, confusing, sad and celebratory times over more than half a century, from affairs in distant youth to the credit crunch. They recall friends now beyond known life, misinterpretations giving rise to comedy, epiphanies like a newborn calf or the shock of a painting, and hours dedicated to translation or literary experiments. The book, which also includes translations of some favourite modern poems, tries to come to terms with time itself.
Memory, including the tricks it plays, is this book's overriding theme. The poems seek to revive happy, confusing, sad and celebratory times over more than half a century, from affairs in distant youth to the credit crunch. They recall friends now beyond known life, misinterpretations giving rise to comedy, epiphanies like a newborn calf or the shock of a painting, and hours dedicated to translation or literary experiments. The book, which also includes translations of some favourite modern poems, tries to come to terms with time itself.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856464256
SKU
V9780856464256
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About Harry Guest
Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in France, Japan and England. With his wife Lynn Guest, a historical novelist, he lives in Exeter.
Reviews for Some Times
'The publication of Harry Guest's Collected Poems (A Puzzling Harvest, 2002) was something of a revelation... [It] revealed that he had gone on developing, experimenting with forms, shunning popularity, performing very little, but continuing to search - in civilized cadences, with wit and genial authority - for a moral and spiritual centre' - John Greening, Times Literary Supplement