Landscape with Chainsaw
by James Lasdun
2020-12-30 03:00:16
Brilliant ....certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English.—Anthony Hecht, author of The Darkness and the Light An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questio...
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Brilliant ....certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English.—Anthony Hecht, author of The Darkness and the Light An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. In the chainsaw—the book's central image—all manner of human traits are reflected with an intense, often comical brilliance.
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