Portraits / Elaine Feinstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feinstein, Elaine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Poetry.

Authors.

Biographical poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

59 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2015.

Summary:

"Elaine Feinstein has always written with most intensity about people. In this book, she remembers friends she has loved, writers she has known and literary figures from the past. She writes of the Russian poet Bella Akhmadulina with tender admiration; the East End poet Emanuel Litvinoff, at work in his Bloomsbury flat; and Masha Enzensberger, who brought Feinstein into the world of Marina Tsvetaeva. As she imagines Raymond Chandler, Isaac Rosenberg or Billie Holiday her words about them say things about herself. In the closing poem, 'Death and the Lemon Tree', she finds a compelling image for the privilege of continuing to write into old age."--Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Portraits

Courting Danger 13

April Fools' Day 14

Life Class: A Sketch 15

Emanuel 17

The Gamble 18

Homesickness 20

Dickens Considers Fagin 21

The Irony of Wislava Szyniborska 22

Luftmensch 23

Dizzy in Westminster 24

A Charred Slipper 25

Sleepless Nights 26

Dreaming Raymond Chandler 27

Marina's Ghost Visits Akhmatova 28

A Yorksmreman in Provence 29

Siegfried Sassoon and the Wish to Belong 30

The Marriage of Thomas and Jane Carlyle 32

Dr Who in Las Vegas 34

The Generation of Gabriela Mistral 35

Flair 36

Down and Out 37

A Young Wife Listens to Piaf 38

Billie Holiday in Chalcot Gardens 39

The Undercover Rider 40

Burning Bright 41

Old Muse 42

Immortal in Kensal Rise 43

Voice 44

On Not Dying Young 45

Self-Portrait in the Olympic Summer 46

St Lucy's Day 47

An Oxford Beauty 48

A Video of Habima at the Globe (2012) 49

Love 51

My Polish Cleaner's Version 52

Death and the Lemon Tree

Death and the Lemon Tree (1-4) 55.

ISBN:

9781847772152

1847772153

OCLC:

898155761