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A remarkable collection exploring aging, mortality, and environmental destruction.
This powerful and moving edition, written by John Burnside, draws inspiration from Schiller, who acknowledged that as one thing fades, something else blossoms: everywhere and always, in great and small matters, new life blooms among the ruins.
In poems that explore aging, mortality, environmental destruction, and mental illness, Burnside not only mourns what is lost but also celebrates the new and often unexpected forms that emerge from these losses. An epitaph for a deceased loved one ends with a quiet acknowledgment of everyday beauty – the sun streaming through the trees … a nightingale in the nearby field, full of song – as the speaker emerges from quarantine after a long illness.
Throughout, the poet is focused on the quality of grace – divine, extraordinary, and ephemeral like an angel's wing – and the fractured encounter between humanity and its spiritual and living elements, even with itself: the emaciated deer in the streets / like refugees. He acknowledges the inevitable decay towards death but still finds bright notes in the darkness – insisting that, here and now, and even in decline, the world, when given due attention, is all Announcement.
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- Vintage Publishing
- Language
- English
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- -
- Cover
- Soft
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- ISBN-13
- 9781529909258
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