Some similes act like heat shields for re-entry to reality: a tramp in flames on the floor. We can say Flame on! to invoke the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four. We can switch to art and imagine Dali at this latitude doing CCTV surrealism. We could compare him to a protest monk sat up the way he is. --From "Tramp in Flames" With his free-flowing and musical takes on popular and hidden culture, Paul Farley has emerged in the last decade as one of ...
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Some similes act like heat shields for re-entry to reality: a tramp in flames on the floor. We can say Flame on! to invoke the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four. We can switch to art and imagine Dali at this latitude doing CCTV surrealism. We could compare him to a protest monk sat up the way he is. --From "Tramp in Flames" With his free-flowing and musical takes on popular and hidden culture, Paul Farley has emerged in the last decade as one of Britain's most imaginative and formally gifted young poets. He engages with the commonplace and the overlooked, the absurd and the catastrophic, the scientific and the mythic, in ways that make us stop and think again about what it is to be living in this world at this particular time. With The Atlantic Tunnel , Farley is well on his way to becoming one of the definitive English-language voices of the age.
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FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. SELECTED POEMS FROM FROM 4 PREVIOUS BOOKS WITH AN ADDITIONAL 7 NEW ONES. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First printing, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($25.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very light wear to extremities of an otherwise very fine, as-new jacket. Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut.