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Constellations
Ian Pindar
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Description for Constellations
Paperback. This second collection by an acclaimed poet and editor is a profound meditation upon sex, love, parenthood, the power of dreams and memory, and the passing of time, as well as being and mortality, literature and language, and the place of poetry in the modern world. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 154. 80 pages. This second collection by an acclaimed poet and editor is a profound meditation upon sex, love, parenthood, the power of dreams and memory, and the passing of time, as well as being and mortality, literature and language, and the place of poetry in the modern world. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 9. Weight: 154.
Constellations, Ian Pindar's second collection, begins with a celebration of sunlight, but ends with the appearance of the moon, the coming of winter, snow and 'perpetual night'. There are as many poems as there are constellations in the celestial sphere, although Pindar never abandons what he calls 'the Plane of Matter'. In poems of haunting beauty the poet takes us from a summer love affair by the sea to the coming of war and its aftermath. The work as a whole is a profound meditation upon sex, love, parenthood, the power of dreams and memory, and the passing of time, ... Read more
Constellations, Ian Pindar's second collection, begins with a celebration of sunlight, but ends with the appearance of the moon, the coming of winter, snow and 'perpetual night'. There are as many poems as there are constellations in the celestial sphere, although Pindar never abandons what he calls 'the Plane of Matter'. In poems of haunting beauty the poet takes us from a summer love affair by the sea to the coming of war and its aftermath. The work as a whole is a profound meditation upon sex, love, parenthood, the power of dreams and memory, and the passing of time, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770967
SKU
V9781847770967
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Ref
99-21
About Ian Pindar
Ian Pindar was born in London in 1970. He is the author of Joyce (Haus, 2004), a biography of James Joyce, and co-translated The Three Ecologies (Continuum, 2000) by the radical French theorist Felix Guattari. He was an editor at J. M. Dent, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and the Harvill Press, where he edited Haruki Murakami, Anna Politkovskaya and W. G. ... Read more
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