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Item Details
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LANDSCAPE WITH CHAINSAW
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| By: |
James Lasdun |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£8.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0224061070 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780224061070 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
8 February, 2001 |
| Pages: |
64 |
| Description: |
These poems about life in the Catskill Mountains outside Woodstock raise questions about exile and belonging, cutting ties and forming new bonds and the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. Out of this rises the book's central image: the chainsaw. |
| Synopsis: |
James Lasdun's third book of poems explores the themes and tensions of his last two with a new boldness and exuberance, in a series of poems about life in the Catskill mountains outside Woodstock, where the author moved with his family some years ago. Questions of exile and belonging, cutting ties and forming new bonds, figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world of the mountain wilderness - at once a stunning companion and a ferocious competitor. Out of this - 'the need to carve out a niche for ourselves;/our singular relation to what we love' - rises the book's central image: the chainsaw. Very much a real machine (given to the alarmed poet by his wife), it also comes to form a complex symbol in which all manner of human traits are reflected with an intense, often comical, brilliance. A brilliantly assured, deftly lyrical sequence, Landscape with Chainsaw melds passion with wit, the classical with the quotidian, in a thrilling meditation on history, love, cultural identity and the anxiety of displacement.As an examination of the complexities of deracination and domesticity, it marks the matured genius of one of England's most important poets. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2001
Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2001 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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