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Description for Rain
hardcover. A collection of poems that intends to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and simultaneously offer some protection against them. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 198. From the library of Gerard Fanning. Signed and inscribed to Fanning by Paterson. Fine in fine dust wrapper
In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and simultaneously offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address, or more personal in their direction, these poems - to the rain and the sea, to his young sons or beloved friends - never shy from their inquiry into truth and lie, embracing everything ... Read more
In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and simultaneously offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address, or more personal in their direction, these poems - to the rain and the sea, to his young sons or beloved friends - never shy from their inquiry into truth and lie, embracing everything ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571249572
SKU
KSG0030168
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Don Paterson
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He works as a musician and editor and has written four collections of poems, Nil Nil (1993), God's Gift to Women (1997) - winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Eyes (1999) and Landing Light which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize ... Read more
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