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Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011
Mimi Khalvati
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Paperback. A collation of poems that tells the stories of author's life in four sections: childhood and early adulthood; motherhood; meditations on light; and love and art. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 234. New and Selected Poems 1991-2011. 180 pages. A collation of poems that tells the stories of author's life in four sections: childhood and early adulthood; motherhood; meditations on light; and love and art. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 214 x 137 x 15. Weight: 232.
Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011 combines a generous collation of poems from Mimi Khalvati's five Carcanet volumes with previously uncollected sequences. She orders her work autobiographically, telling the stories of her life in four sections: childhood and early adulthood; motherhood; meditations on light; and love and art, circling back to childhood in her celebrated final sequence ( The Meanest Flower ). The figure of the child stands at the centre of the book, appearing in many guises: the poet as a schoolgirl on the Isle of Wight, or in half-remembered later years living with her grandmother in Tehran; ... Read more
Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011 combines a generous collation of poems from Mimi Khalvati's five Carcanet volumes with previously uncollected sequences. She orders her work autobiographically, telling the stories of her life in four sections: childhood and early adulthood; motherhood; meditations on light; and love and art, circling back to childhood in her celebrated final sequence ( The Meanest Flower ). The figure of the child stands at the centre of the book, appearing in many guises: the poet as a schoolgirl on the Isle of Wight, or in half-remembered later years living with her grandmother in Tehran; ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770943
SKU
V9781847770943
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About Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran and grew up on the Isle of Wight. She attended Drama Centre London and worked as a theatre director in London and in Tehran. She is the founder of The Poetry School where she now teaches. Carcanet publish her six previous collections, including In White Ink (1991), Mirrorwork (1995), Entries on Light (1997), The ... Read more
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