Time to Get Here

Selected Poems 1969–2002

AvIan Patterson

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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‘There is always a history to the shape of the mind’, wrote Jacqueline Rose recently, and one of the continuing preoccupations of these poems has been both to create a sense of the many forms of that shape and to register the history of the worlds which shape it and to which it responds with pleasure, guilt, anger, irony, hatred or love. These are poems which welcome distraction, in various forms, and which seem to have a lasting interest in registering and reproducing a sense of the uncanny. The strategies adopted veer between lyric mannerism and reconstructed second-hand words and, taken together, the poems chart a lazy form of investigative political thinking through the last three decades of the twentieth century and their phenomena.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-04-15
Mått:140 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt:274 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Salt Modern Poets
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Salt Publishing
ISBN:9781876857929

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Ian Patterson was born in 1948 and grew up in Cheshire and London. After a variety of jobs, he now teaches English at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He has published numerous translations, most recently Finding Time Again, the final volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time from Penguin. He lives in Cambridge with the writer Jenny Diski.

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The questions of war, civic space, and the surreal quality of everyday life command the view in this singular and eloquent work. Moreover the keen intonation of each poem via the handled delicacies of accent and stress deploys language to work some ethical discernment which is far from inconsequential.

Innehållsförteckning

Section One 1969–1979PoemThe Elegy for SpringKara ChachQuiet ArrivingSumming It Up One of These DaysA Happy New YearWaking Up: 2.10 pmPoliticsNight MinistryLullabyRitual SlipsPolly FortuneRed BreathHold the Child, Father SunlightA Thing of Reason PencilFatal CongeriesAs We Run Out of the WetManBound to a TimeJapan is SadSentinelRequiem for a Brain NotesSparkling Fruit SaltsKinoLinoNinoRhinoVinoThe Yurt: Day OneTatlin’s Dream Curiously StrongCover Design After the EventAny Old IronWhy Motoring Costs Have SoaredSome Comfort“the audience”‘Life Dreamed is now Life Lived’ (David Gascoyne)DerryThe Political Economy of ArtUndergroundLooking at HenryEndless DemandsIntroTalking ’Bout ThingsThings ReplyApprehensionHardly YippeeWe Must Tighten Our BeltsNothing in my head . . .Light Determines a State of Absolute Rest Out of DateIt Was a Long LaneI Felt a Hand Grip My ElbowIn Your FaceEndless DemandsIn 1938Section Two Roughly SpeakingPoems from the 1980sAll Our EndsStill LifeWithout Rhyme or ReasonIt Had to Be YouThe Origins of Love and HateLate CapitalIrreducible BlueSo to SpeakSpeaking of LifeAfter BreakfastPrattleYou Never SaidTime How ShortRed PriestInterferenceMatter and MemoryA ProposTime How ShortFar and AwayNo ResolutionThe Night ThePostcards to Spain 19861. A Note on Air and Motives2. Coda3. Point Blank Future4. Wish You Were HerePostcard to ItalyA ReadingL’HistoireSmall ChangesGuinea on ChinaHigh TimeThe First InterventionSoloWherever a HeadThe Name of DaySay NothingSection Three 1991–2002SestinaTense FodderThe Garden PartyNo ContactThese DaysThe WireLess and LessSleepThis and ThatLino CutA Bit ApartLook BackFacing PageDrying OutNew YorkSome TitleMuch More Pronounced Oh SnootyOh, To Be in EnglandPastoralAfter PopeLaugh Like a PianoBasic WhiteHardihoodQuite RightA World of LoveDeath of DanceIn the TrainNorthLiving Here NowMulch Tumult