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Archangel

Autor Henry Shukman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2013
The first collection in ten years from the multifariously talented and prize-winning Henry Shukman.
     It has been over a decade since Henry Shukman published his award-winning first collection, In Doctor No's Garden. Now, in his greatly anticipated second collection, he explores a little-known piece of Jewish history, in a sequence of poems that forms the centre-piece of this book. In 1917 several thousand Jewish tailors were deported from London and shipped back to Archangel and the Russian Empire they had recently fled, ostensibly to fight on the Eastern Front. They arrived just as the Revolution was unfolding and the old regime was collapsing into chaos. Among them were Shukman's grandfather and great-uncle, and these poems chronicle their four-year struggle to return to their wives and children in London.

With poems on loss and mortality, on love in difficult circumstances, and on the familiar themes of childhood and family relationships, Archangel tells the stories of many journeys -- from youth to maturity, from loss back into love -- and the migrations of Shukman's Jewish grandparents are echoed in his own move with his wife and family from England to New Mexico. Whatever the theme, though, these are all love poems: poems lucid with intensity, bright with the longing for love -- both its fleeting rapture and its slow contentment -- and Archangel is a book of great reach, power and beauty.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780224097420
ISBN-10: 0224097423
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 128 x 199 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: JONATHAN CAPE

Notă biografică

Henry Shukman's first poetry collection, In Doctor No's Garden, was a Book of the Year in the Guardian and Times and won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. He was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust and currently lives in New Mexico.

Recenzii

"The impressive result is a patchwork of loss and longing - enlivened with acute observation - which brings home the meaning of love." -- Mark Sanderson Sunday Telegraph "This is highly recommended." -- Peter Lawson Jewish Chronicle "Just occasionally a new poetry collection arrives and I am enchanted from the moment I open the book. Others take time for me to "know" them, but when Archangel by Henry Shukman arrived, The Singer was the first poem I read and I knew I was in the door." Dovegreyreader "Tender, well-cut words." -- Boyd Tonkin i