The heart, the border
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書誌事項
The heart, the border
Bloodaxe Books, 1990
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The poems of the The heart, the border were written first while Ken Smith was writer-in-residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison, continuing his exploration of the territory of Wormwood (1987), and then while he was living in Berlin writing a book about the Wall when the Wall come down. It was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
He writes how he was at a kind of midpoint with this book, on the border with his baggage in order, coming back to tell the border tales: "These are communiques from border states between the Kingdom of Pity and the Republic of Terror: poems made from the debris of separate moments brought in the poem into some kind of credibility, some sort of continuity, some sort of a life, some kind of a journey. As ever it is a journey chiefly urban and uncertain, and as ever it is shadowed by childhood. Indeed there are several voices, most of them imprisoned: Brady the childkiller and Bamber the murderer of his entire family, Jack the anonymous lad, Harry who serves his time and emerges into the larger prison of himself, and the man who retires to Herculaneum just as Vesuvius is about to blow up. These poems travel the distance between the prison wall and the Berlin Wall, they confront one prison to confront a further prison, they break away from the press of many voices and other personae into a single clear voice."
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