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Fall at Home New and Collected Aphorisms

Paterson, Don
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780571338221
Publisert
2021-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
189 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Paterson, Don

Biographical note

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His previous poetry collections include Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women, Landing Light and Rain. Awards include the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, and all three Forward Prizes; he is currently the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize twice. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is currently Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews. Since 1997 he has been Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan, and he also works as a jazz musician and composer.

Fall at Home New and Collected Aphorisms

Paterson, Don
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk
Paterson, Don
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk
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Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades. In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his two previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today's world. Moving and mischievous, canny and profound - these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times. Consciousness is the turn the universe makes to hasten its own end. * Agnosticism is indulged only by those who have never suffered belief. * Poet: someone in the aphorism business for the money.
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Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades.
A hugely enjoyable collection. It takes a degree of chutzpah to pen a single aphorism, let alone a collection. It's a form that presupposes the author's wisdom and his right to bestow it. In the wrong hands an aphorism can either feel hectoring and judgmental or bloodless and obvious. The Fall at Home offers the reader a bracing combination of the profound, the comic and the often hilariously self-revealing. If Cioran - nihilistic, rancorous, austere - was the great aphorist of the 20th century, Paterson may be his sunnier 21st-century reincarnation.
Les mer
The best of Paterson's 'clever, addictive and funny' aphorisms - now in paperback.

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Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades. In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his two previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today's world. Moving and mischievous, canny and profound - these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times. Consciousness is the turn the universe makes to hasten its own end. * Agnosticism is indulged only by those who have never suffered belief. * Poet: someone in the aphorism business for the money.
Les mer
Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades.
A hugely enjoyable collection. It takes a degree of chutzpah to pen a single aphorism, let alone a collection. It's a form that presupposes the author's wisdom and his right to bestow it. In the wrong hands an aphorism can either feel hectoring and judgmental or bloodless and obvious. The Fall at Home offers the reader a bracing combination of the profound, the comic and the often hilariously self-revealing. If Cioran - nihilistic, rancorous, austere - was the great aphorist of the 20th century, Paterson may be his sunnier 21st-century reincarnation.
Les mer
The best of Paterson's 'clever, addictive and funny' aphorisms - now in paperback.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780571338221
Publisert
2021-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
189 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Paterson, Don

Biographical note

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His previous poetry collections include Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women, Landing Light and Rain. Awards include the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, and all three Forward Prizes; he is currently the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize twice. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is currently Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews. Since 1997 he has been Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan, and he also works as a jazz musician and composer.

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