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Bluestone: new and selected poems

✍ Scribed by James Lasdun

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year: 2015
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 53 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0374713871

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✦ Synopsis

**A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive best
**
Two men grapple with jumper cables, trying "to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm; machinery . . ." A man on his way to see his therapist encounters a female police officer in an elevator and feels himself regressing to "the original essence, the masculine / criminal salt." A teenager is tricked into eating a spoonful of lime pickle by his girlfriend's father. An Englishman in the Catskills ponders the nature of exile, is chased by yellow jackets, gets a haircut. James Lasdun's subjects are often quotidian--but his treatment of them never is. Under his transformative gaze, the familiar becomes strange, the local becomes foreign, and the minor becomes epic.
Lasdun has been winning acclaim since his first collection, 1988's A Jump Start --Helen Vendler has lauded his ability to give "brisk shape to contemporary and classical events"; _The New...

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