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Extended Similes
Jenny Joseph
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Description for Extended Similes
Paperback. Presents a collection of prose fictions by a modern British writer, winner of the BBC's National Poetry Day poll in 1996. This book shows the influence on human lives of the mechanical workings of the world, illuminating many human states, especially love. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
As in her poetry, so now in Extended Similes Jenny Joseph shows the influence on human lives of the mechanical workings of the world, illuminating many human states, especially love. Writing of Jenny Joseph's poetry, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner described the ‘mosaic mode’ she uses to draw ‘emotional, philosophical, reflective, lyrical, meditative, dialogic, descriptive and provocative tones into a rich impressionistic tableau’. This could also describe the prose of Extended Similes.
As in her poetry, so now in Extended Similes Jenny Joseph shows the influence on human lives of the mechanical workings of the world, illuminating many human states, especially love. Writing of Jenny Joseph's poetry, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner described the ‘mosaic mode’ she uses to draw ‘emotional, philosophical, reflective, lyrical, meditative, dialogic, descriptive and provocative tones into a rich impressionistic tableau’. This could also describe the prose of Extended Similes.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852243029
SKU
V9781852243029
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Ref
99-1
About Jenny Joseph
Jenny Joseph (1932-2018) was born in Birmingham, and grew up in Buckinghamshire and later in Devon where she was evacuated during the war. She was first published by John Lehmann in the 1950s. She lived in London for many years and then for much of her life in Gloucestershire before moving to Swansea. Her first book of poems, The Unlooked-for ... Read more
Reviews for Extended Similes
This multi-layered book of prose fiction shows the influence on human lives of the mechanical workings of the world, illuminating many human states, especially love. Like a fly against a window-pane, Joseph batters at the limits of what it is possible to say.
Lia Deval
Times Literary Supplement
Jenny Joseph writes poems full of mist and reason, ... Read more
Lia Deval
Times Literary Supplement
Jenny Joseph writes poems full of mist and reason, ... Read more