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'The bird on the branch was singing of gladness,/ disrupting my dreams with its dreadful screech./ Rushing outside I knocked it from its perch/ with one blow of the garden rake...' Taking a somewhat different tack from Keats in Ode to a Nightingale, Stephen Dobyns addresses the conundrum 'How hard to love the world; we must love the world '. The spiritual intermixed with the bawdy, the courageous with the cowardly, the kindly with the cruel - Common Carnage rejects the decorous and decorative to map the complexity, the ...

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Common Carnage 1997, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Tyne and Wear

ISBN-13: 9781852243906

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Common Carnage 1996, Penguin Group, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780140587487

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