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Walking out of the world : and other poems / Matthew Mead.

LIBRA PR6063.E2 W35 2004 copy 2
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mead, Matthew, 1924-2009.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Genre:
Poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
71 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
London : Anvil Press Poetry, 2004.
Summary:
"Matthew Mead's subject is the presence and absence of the past . . . in their reticence and grave poignancy, these poems speak clearly to us of what we are and were; they are, I think, among the most austerely beautiful poems to have appeared in England for many years." So wrote the US-based British poet and critic Dick Davis in 1979, and the same is no less true for the poems in "Walking Out of the World.
Contents:
Invocation
Ancient & Modern: Five Poems
In Brief
Below Zero
Into Avarice
In the Changing Room
The Brew
A Dozen Villanelles
Villanelle of the Final Whole
Villanelle of the Last Gasp
A Villanelle on Hold
Villanelle of the Unslept Night
Villanelle of the Sudden Twinge
An Unrhymed Villanelle
A Double Villanelle
Villanelle: A Blotted Weltanschauung
A Phantom Villanelle
Villanelle of the Last Lap
A Villanelle in Memory of Edward Mummery
A Badly Bloated Villanelle
Eleven Little Poems
The First Cold Mornings
With a Styptic Pencil
Bearings
Triolet: 'Young girls explode ... '
In That Wild Bed
Till the Sands of the Desert
Too Late for the Centenary
Mermaids: One
Mermaids: Two
In the Bleachery
Low Blood Pressure
Kenneth Cain
After the Break
The Drill
Help the Aged
You in Your Small Corner
At the Turn
Losses 2002
The Hag
The Space Where I Stood
The Sentences of Death
Set Up
Death as a Foreign Language, Lesson One
Cowardice in Face of the Blank Page
Local Colour Seen as Camouflage
And Daylight Hours Tomorrow
In the Epitaph Section
Drill for a Deathbed
Sitrep
Fade Out.
Other Format:
Online version: Mead, Matthew, 1924- Walking out of the world.
ISBN:
0856463655
9780856463655
OCLC:
52357825

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