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050 00 $aPR6062.A735$bA6 2015
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100 1 $aLasdun, James.
240 10 $aPoems.$kSelections
245 10 $aBluestone :$bnew and selected poems /$cJames Lasdun.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2015.
300 $a161 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive best Two men grapple with jumper cables, trying "to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm; machinery." A man on his way to see his therapist encounters a female police officer in an elevator and feels himself regressing to "the original essence, the masculine / criminal salt." A teenager is tricked into eating a spoonful of lime pickle by his girlfriend's father. An Englishman in the Catskills ponders the nature of exile, is chased by yellow jackets, gets a haircut. James Lasdun's subjects are often quotidian--but his treatment of them never is. Under his transformative gaze, the familiar becomes strange, the local becomes foreign, and the minor becomes epic. Lasdun has been winning acclaim since his first collection, 1988's A Jump Start--Helen Vendler has lauded his ability to give "brisk shape to contemporary and classical events"; The New York Times has praised the "sharp, slicing imagery" of his work. Now, in Bluestone, which selects from all three of his previous collections and includes poems from his fourth, Water Sessions, previously available only in the U.K., readers will be able to appreciate the full sweep of this capacious talent: his delicate wit, his gift for invention, his keen observational eye. It is a gathering that affirms Lasdun's position as, to quote Anthony Hecht, one of "the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English.""--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A selection of poems spanning the career of noted British poet James Lasdun"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 1 $aCello music -- Snake burning -- This feeling -- The two of them -- Above Laggan -- Vanishing points -- The calling of the Apostle Matthew -- Woman police officer in elevator -- The revenant -- Lime pickle -- Landscape with bubbles and broom -- Powder compact.
650 0 $aPoetry, Modern$y20th century.
650 7 $aPOETRY$xEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPoetry.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01067691
648 7 $a1900 - 1999$2fast
852 00 $bglx$hPR6062.A735$iA6 2015