The Perseverance - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Tin House BooksISBN-13:9781951142421ISBN-10:195114242XUPC:9781951142421Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, Subjects & Themes, EuropeanBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCF73VHMZZ
The Perseverance
In the wake of his father's death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus' The Perseverance travels to Barcelona. In Gaudi's Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God. Receiving information through his hearing aid technology, he considers how deaf people are included in this idea. "Even though," he says, "I have not heard /...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tin House BooksISBN-13:9781951142421ISBN-10:195114242XUPC:9781951142421Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, Subjects & Themes, EuropeanBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCF73VHMZZ
Raymond Antrobus was born in Hackney, London, to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of To Sweeten Bitter, The Perseverance, and All The Names Given. He was awarded the 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize (judged by Ocean Vuong) for his poem 'Sound Machine'. In 2019 he became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbones Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. Other...
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