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The Mystery Of Things
Clive Wilmer
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Description for The Mystery Of Things
Paperback. A collection of poems exploring the interdependence of earthly things and heavenly mystery. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 5. Weight in Grams: 91.
Clive Wilmer's last collection "The Falls", wrote "Jem Poster in PN Review", 'offers beguiling glimpses of a world in which the earthly and the heavenly manifest their independence'. This is equally true of "The Mystery of Things", which as the title implies, is as much concerned with things as it is with their mystery. In the tradition of mystical literature, the sacred is seen in terms of the erotic and the erotic furnishes glimpses of the transcendent. Central to the book is the intuition that pain and fear are fundamental to the valuation of life. Wilmer's poems, as John Greening ... Read more
Clive Wilmer's last collection "The Falls", wrote "Jem Poster in PN Review", 'offers beguiling glimpses of a world in which the earthly and the heavenly manifest their independence'. This is equally true of "The Mystery of Things", which as the title implies, is as much concerned with things as it is with their mystery. In the tradition of mystical literature, the sacred is seen in terms of the erotic and the erotic furnishes glimpses of the transcendent. Central to the book is the intuition that pain and fear are fundamental to the valuation of life. Wilmer's poems, as John Greening ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857548242
SKU
V9781857548242
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About Clive Wilmer
Born in 1945, CLIVE WILMER grew up in London and studied at King's College, Cambridge. He is a freelance writer and lecturer and the chief presenter of the Poet of the Month series on Radio 3. His previous Carcanet collections were The Dwelling-Place (1977) and Devotions (1982). He has translated Miklos Radnoti and Gyorgy Petri, edited essays by Thom Gunn, ... Read more
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