The distinguished poet, Herbert Lomas, was born and grew up in Todmorden, a small town on the Yorkshire / Lancashire border. This sequence of 80 short poems in the form of a continuous narrative, is a personal history of the lost Todmorden of the 1920s and 30s, when Herbert Lomas was a boy. In his words: "It's not political history, but it records the private pains of public history... I'm struck with how creative the people were: how they invented themselves and made language, music, companionship and love out of an often ...
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The distinguished poet, Herbert Lomas, was born and grew up in Todmorden, a small town on the Yorkshire / Lancashire border. This sequence of 80 short poems in the form of a continuous narrative, is a personal history of the lost Todmorden of the 1920s and 30s, when Herbert Lomas was a boy. In his words: "It's not political history, but it records the private pains of public history... I'm struck with how creative the people were: how they invented themselves and made language, music, companionship and love out of an often bleak inheritance."
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Fine. First edition. Paperback original. Fine in wrappers. Inscribed to Daniel Hoffman, who served as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress (the equivalent of the United States Poet Laureate) in 1973-1974 and published several additional books of poetry and literary scholarship. Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed from Lomas referencing this title.
