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Jeopardy
Gregory Warren Wilson
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Description for Jeopardy
paperback. A collection that provokes and challenges the reader. It suggests that disclosure - whether of love or anguish - is hazardous because it can betray as well as illumine. But which is more likely to put things in jeopardy: the outspoken or the unspoken? Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 9. Weight in Grams: 145.
Gregory Warren Wilson's exciting new collection provokes and challenges the reader. Warren Wilson suggests that disclosure - whether of love or anguish - is hazardous because it can betray as well as illumine. But which is more likely to put things in jeopardy: the outspoken or the unspoken? "Staged Whispers", the second half of this collection, is voiced through a ventriloquist's dummy. It exposes the desolation, frustration and fleeting euphoria experienced by a performer on stage and off. For lovers of words and music, Warren Wilson's direct and insistent voice is sure to captivate and entertain.
Gregory Warren Wilson's exciting new collection provokes and challenges the reader. Warren Wilson suggests that disclosure - whether of love or anguish - is hazardous because it can betray as well as illumine. But which is more likely to put things in jeopardy: the outspoken or the unspoken? "Staged Whispers", the second half of this collection, is voiced through a ventriloquist's dummy. It exposes the desolation, frustration and fleeting euphoria experienced by a performer on stage and off. For lovers of words and music, Warren Wilson's direct and insistent voice is sure to captivate and entertain.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781900564632
SKU
V9781900564632
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Ref
99-2
About Gregory Warren Wilson
Gregory Warren Wilson studied violin and composition at the Royal College of Music and has worked with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and at the Opera House in Florence. His two previous poetry collections are Preserving Lemons, which won the Staple First Edition Award in 1996, and Hanging Windchimes in a Vacuum (Tears in the Fence, 1997). With Carole Satyamurti he ... Read more
Reviews for Jeopardy
'Stunningly imagined, flawlessly written; this writer has that rarest of rarities, a perfect ear.' U. A. Fanthorpe'Mozartian energy, zest and brilliance.' Anne Born