✦ LIBER ✦

Raptors

✍ Scribed by Toon Tellegen

Book ID: 110817169
Publisher: Carcanet
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 51 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781847778550

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

With the economy of proverbs and the psychological insight of a novel, Toon Tellegen's acclaimed sequence Raptors depicts the dynamics of a family held hostage by the mood-swings and histrionics of a father, a figure both comic and terrifying, grotesque and pathetic. Tellegen's mercurial imagination evokes the dark archetypes of European folklore and reanimates them with a sophisticated sense of the endless fluidity of relationships, the instability of interpretation. An improvisation on a theme, circling back to my father' at the start of each poem, Raptors builds to a story without narrative, its extravagant imaginative leaps into absurdity held within a framework of tender observation. Toon Tellegen's translator Judith Wilkinson has worked closely with the poet to create English poems that capture the startling clarity and inventiveness of the original Dutch. Raptors has the rewarding intensity of a modern classic.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Raptors Worldwide

✍ Review by: Helmut C. Mueller 📂 Article 📅 1981 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English ⚖ 153 KB

Raptor

✍ Buroker, Lindsay 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🌐 English ⚖ 204 KB

Responsible for her friend�s death, Lieutenant Caslin Ahn wants nothing more than to be left alone. She no longer deserves the company of comrades or the fulfillment she felt as a Wolf Squadron fighter pilot. But a summons from the king leaves her with no choice but to rejoin her teammates. An ancie

Raptor

✍ Gieson, Judith Van 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 AudioGO 🌐 English ⚖ 154 KB

A steady law practice, a stash of tequila, a lover she calls the Kid--only a debt of the heart to her dear, dead aunt Joan could compel Neil Hamel to leave Albuquerque for Montana in search of a bird. No ordinary winged creature, the Arctic falcon is a near-mythic figure, a cool killer who likes the

Raptor

✍ Jennings, Gary 📂 Fiction 📅 1992 🏛 Bantam 🌐 English ⚖ 680 KB

In the opening pages of Jennings's ( Aztec ) massive, audacious historical novel about the Gothic conquest of the Roman Empire, Thorn, the hermaphrodite hero/heroine, is seduced first by a monk and then by a nun. Evicted from a monastery and a convent, Thorn is then schooled in the ways of the world

Raptor

✍ Jennings, Gary 📂 Fiction 📅 1992 🏛 Bantam 🌐 English ⚖ 680 KB

### From Publishers Weekly In the opening pages of Jennings's ( Aztec ) massive, audacious historical novel about the Gothic conquest of the Roman Empire, Thorn, the hermaphrodite hero/heroine, is seduced first by a monk and then by a nun. Evicted from a monastery and a convent, Thorn is then schoo

Raptor

✍ Jennings, Gary 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Bantam 🌐 English ⚖ 389 KB