The Italian Visitor
From the opening poem, an extended elegy for the Cold War's ambivalent mix of irresponsibility and prosperity, to a concluding short memoir of Robert Lowell, The Italian Visitor is a book about memory. The title sequence, an account of a 1940s' childhood, unravels time by placing Grey Gowrie's eight-year-old self in fictional relationship with another poetic hero, Eugenio Montale. The Italian visited bankrupt, utilitarian Britain in 1948, in his early fifties. There are love songs from the Portuguese, a ballad about the birth of Israel and elegiac poems for those districts of London now occupied mainly by overseas tycoons. Gowrie has also inc…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84777-777-5
- EAN: 9781847777775
- Produktnummer: 19998446
- Verlag: Carcanet
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 77 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 204 KB
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