Tolstoy in Love - Paperback
by Ray Givans
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ray GivansTheme:Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:5/1/2009Pages:84
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dedalus PressISBN-13:9781906614089ISBN-10:1906614083UPC:9781906614089Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.118Product ID:SC11D67SGS
Tolstoy in Love is the first full-length collection of poems by Tyrone-born Ray Givans. Daring and risk-taking, the first section begins in the voice of Anna Akhmatova, with what John Wakeman (founder and co-editor of THE SHOp), calls a triumphant, lyrical celebration of her son's release after years in Stalin's prisons. Notions of voice, and influence, are further explored in poems that are both inner portraits of and meditations on a gallery of writers, including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Emily Dickinson, John Berryman and Simone Weil. The second section... is largely autobiographical-reminiscences of a Protestant boyhood in Northern Ireland, evocations of a divided Belfast. The poems here are humane, sometimes touching, sometimes ironic, sometimes playful. Here are two books for the price of one, both worth having.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dedalus PressISBN-13:9781906614089ISBN-10:1906614083UPC:9781906614089Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.118Product ID:SC11D67SGS
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