Fiddle Lane

Name: Fiddle Lane
Author: Thomas Carper

Auteur: Thomas Carper

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Thomas Carper

Engels
Paperback
9780801842696
01 oktober 1991
70 pagina's

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In Fiddle Lane Thomas Carper presents sixty-five poems, all written in traditional forms-- most of them sonnets-- which treat subjects ranging from the creation of the world to the pleasures and trials of growing up. Although his focus is often on the personal and the local, Carper's poems transcend their immediate topics in ways that speak directly to the eternal concerns of the human heart. In one poem, a boy's tormented, guilty dreams keep him revolving painfully on the spit of sleep. In another, an ailing mother, the ruin of her mind... infinite, recites poetry she learned as a schoolgirl for a son she does not recognize. A small child loses her beloved brother to death. With varying degrees of reluctance, youths undergo rites of passage that include hunting, football practice, J-stripping, and ice-skating. ( Life will be like this, one observes). Other poems draw on stories from Hebrew, Greek, and Hindu creation myths. And familiar lines from well-known poets are woven together in a humorous poem that satirizes dust jacket blurbs ( An unbarbaric yawp. -- Walt Whitman). Carper also offers thoughts on people who do things for a living that are slightly (or greatly) out of the ordinary: from an ominous Dump Man with a penchant for neatness to a kazoo maker written up in the New York Times, from a former concentration-camp guard who protests his innocence to a poet who, jogging, reflects on the way life is an uphill-downhill matter/ And how it can be told of in iambics. Birth and death, the joy and woe of marriage, coming of age and remaining forever a child-- these and other timeless topics are given new voice in these memorable poems linked by Thomas Carper'sunshakable faith that we have something yet to share/ Though all the universe's atoms move/ Toward regions desolate of human love.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 oktober 1991
Aantal pagina's: 70

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Hoofdauteur: Thomas Carper
Hoofduitgeverij: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Verpakking breedte: 153 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 230 mm
Verpakking lengte: 230 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 180 g

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EAN: 9780801842696

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