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Polder
Chris McCully
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Description for Polder
Paperback. Draws on the author's own recovery from alcoholism, his move to the Dutch landscape and the work of famous artists such as Vermeer and Rembrandt in dialogues that range from the quizzical to the confrontational. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
"Polder" begins with extinction. The dust that existed from the first instant of creation is the dust to which in the end all creation will return, 'sinking under its weight'. The prose-poem 'Dust' was written when the poet was being treated for alcoholism and began the process of recovery. The collection ends with poems addressed to Torquatus, friend of the Roman poet Horace, a dialogue across centuries that defies the dust and looks back with mixed feelings to the drinking days of ambition, pride, and failure - and celebrates the poet's fiftieth birthday. In between are other conversations. In 2000 ... Read more
"Polder" begins with extinction. The dust that existed from the first instant of creation is the dust to which in the end all creation will return, 'sinking under its weight'. The prose-poem 'Dust' was written when the poet was being treated for alcoholism and began the process of recovery. The collection ends with poems addressed to Torquatus, friend of the Roman poet Horace, a dialogue across centuries that defies the dust and looks back with mixed feelings to the drinking days of ambition, pride, and failure - and celebrates the poet's fiftieth birthday. In between are other conversations. In 2000 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770172
SKU
V9781847770172
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Ref
99-41
About Chris McCully
Chris McCully has published three collections of poetry with Carcanet (Time Signatures 1993; Not Only I 1996; The Country of Perhaps 2003) as well as the best-selling Fly-fishing: A Book of Words (1992) and the edited collection of essays The Poet's Voice and Craft (1994). Chris is one of the directors of the Modern Literary Archives programme in the ... Read more
Reviews for Polder
"a keen fly-fisher, a translator of Old English poetry and an expert prosodist... these skills have miraculously combined so that almost every poem alights on the surface of the reader's mind with absolute integrity, judgment, and profound allure The Observer"