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We Look Like This
Dan Burt
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Description for We Look Like This
Paperback. This first collection by a master of traditional forms reflects on two World Wars, stepping over the corpse of the Enlightenment. WE LOOK LIKE THIS includes poems, sequences and his celebrated prose memoir 'Certain Windows'. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172. 112 pages. This first collection by a master of traditional forms reflects on two World Wars, stepping over the corpse of the Enlightenment. WE LOOK LIKE THIS includes poems, sequences and his celebrated prose memoir 'Certain Windows'. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 135 x 216 x 11. Weight: 172.
In his poem 'Modern Painters' Dan Burt looks at the twentieth century and its aftermath through the shattered lens of Ruskin's famous book and the work of certain modern painters. 'We look like this after things fall apart;/The painting is the autopsy report,' reflecting on two World Wars, stepping over the corpse of the Enlightenment. His poems are steady, hard, truth-telling in the way of the painters he most admires, and proof against sentiment. He matches the scale of his concerns with a substantial large- and small-scale poetic architecture, lyrical, philosophical, elegiac or satirical as appropriate. Dan Burt, a ... Read more
In his poem 'Modern Painters' Dan Burt looks at the twentieth century and its aftermath through the shattered lens of Ruskin's famous book and the work of certain modern painters. 'We look like this after things fall apart;/The painting is the autopsy report,' reflecting on two World Wars, stepping over the corpse of the Enlightenment. His poems are steady, hard, truth-telling in the way of the painters he most admires, and proof against sentiment. He matches the scale of his concerns with a substantial large- and small-scale poetic architecture, lyrical, philosophical, elegiac or satirical as appropriate. Dan Burt, a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847771322
SKU
V9781847771322
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About Dan Burt
Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia in 1942. He attended state schools and a local Catholic college before reading English at St. John's College Cambridge. He graduated from Yale Law School and practiced law in the US, Saudi Arabia and the UK until moving to London in 1994 and becoming a British citizen. He is an Honorary Fellow of ... Read more
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