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Summary
In these forty-two poems, Robin Robertson demonstrates an astonishing range of style and concerns, in a voice that is utterly original. Whether he is rendering a dramatic new version of Ovid ("The Flaying of Marsyas") or celebrating the ambiguous pleasures of food ("Artichoke"), Robertson's poetry is always lucid, sensuous, and compelling. These are poems that speak of the wounds of memory, the implacable coupling of desire and loss, the fugitive nature of things. Elegant and profound, A Painted Field has proved a stunning debut.
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Treading through the half-light of ivy and headstone, I see you in the distance as I'm telling our daughter about this place, this whole business: a sister about to be born, how a life's new gravity suspends in water.
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- Title A Painted Field: Poems
- Author Robin Robertson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition F First Paperbac
- Pages 108
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvest Books, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-04-06
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780156006477 / 0156006472
- Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 7.91 x 5.27 x 0.33 in (20.09 x 13.39 x 0.84 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Holiday: Valentine's Day
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97027711
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.914
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"The reader is almost blinded by the incandescent authority of these poems."-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Robin Robertson is instantly recognizable as a poet of vivid authority, commanding a surprised, accurate language of his own. . . . This is a first book of extraordinary gifts and assured maturity."-W. S. Merwin
"Robin Robertson is instantly recognizable as a poet of vivid authority, commanding a surprised, accurate language of his own. . . . This is a first book of extraordinary gifts and assured maturity."-W. S. Merwin
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- New York Review of Books, 07/13/2006, Page 44
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