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Talking to the Dead
Elaine Feinstein
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Description for Talking to the Dead
Paperback. Presents a collection of poems that evoke the poet's long marriage, and the remembered voice of her dead husband. Opening with a death in winter, the author renders a tender work of mourning which is moving but not dispiriting. She uses the words of a much loved husband - sometimes affectionate, sometimes querulous - to invoke his solid presence. Num Pages: 57 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 86. 57 pages. Presents a collection of poems that evoke the poet's long marriage, and the remembered voice of her dead husband. Opening with a death in winter, the author renders a tender work of mourning which is moving but not dispiriting. She uses the words of a much loved husband - sometimes affectionate, sometimes querulous - to invoke his solid presence. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 6. Weight: 86.
Opening with a death in winter, this is a tender work of mourning which is wonderfully moving but never dispiriting. Elaine Feinstein uses the remembered words of a much loved husband - sometimes affectionate, sometimes querulous - to invoke his solid presence; it is the man rather than her grief which is the centre of the book. Many lyrics recall the closeness of their last months together; others confess the ambivalence of a long marriage. Theirs was never an easy relationship, and she is not afraid to register the differences between them. With wry humour, she questions her own life ... Read more
Opening with a death in winter, this is a tender work of mourning which is wonderfully moving but never dispiriting. Elaine Feinstein uses the remembered words of a much loved husband - sometimes affectionate, sometimes querulous - to invoke his solid presence; it is the man rather than her grief which is the centre of the book. Many lyrics recall the closeness of their last months together; others confess the ambivalence of a long marriage. Theirs was never an easy relationship, and she is not afraid to register the differences between them. With wry humour, she questions her own life ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
85g
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857549027
SKU
V9781857549027
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About Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist and biographer. Born in 1930 in Liverpool to parents of Jewish-Ukrainian descent, she grew up in Leicester and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1980 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 1990 she received a Cholmondeley Award. She has also received an honorary doctorate from the ... Read more
Reviews for Talking to the Dead
'She is an extremely fine poet. She has a sinewy, tenacious way of penetrating and exploring the core of her subject that seems to me unique. Her simple, clean language follows the track of the nerves. There is nothing hit or miss, nothing for effect, nothing false. Reading her poems one feels cleansed and sharpened.' - Ted Hughes.