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Meg Becker
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Fiction
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2022
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English
β 842 KB
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Birds With a Broken Wing: Poems
β Scribed by Thorpe, Adam
- Book ID
- 109553210
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 21 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781446434079
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief -- a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the 'insomniac' motorway; industrialised apples against wrinkled windfalls -- his poems argue for bewilderment and 'the slight bruise of doubt'. Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend's suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves.There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue -- memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty. The book is full of such traces, delicate and fugitive: the poet's grandmother retrieved through her ninety-year-old bookmark of rose petals; the unvoiced suggestion of his mother's voice on an answerphone; the memory of a vanished native chief in a Canadian mountain's shadow...
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