How The Hell Are You - Softcover

Maxwell, Glyn

 
9781529037739: How The Hell Are You
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529037735 ISBN 13: 9781529037739
Verlag: Picador, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

A new collection from Glyn Maxwell – one of the great poetic stylists of the era, and one of its leading dramatic voices – is always a cause for celebration.

Here, there are squibs and satires, lyrics and songs, poems written to family members and in memory of loved ones, a series of poems written by an artificial intelligence that will thrill and disturb in equal measure, and a chance for the blank page to finally speak for itself. But How The Hell Are You is, in its way, also a quietly political book: Maxwell regards poetry as truth-telling, and these poems – in their intimate, unsparing accounts and clear-eyed reckonings – recoil from the lies and fake news of the age to actually ‘tell it like it is’. How The Hell Are You shows a remarkable imagination and mind working at full tilt, and is the most powerful expression of Maxwell’s talent to date.

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Glyn Maxwell has won several awards for his poetry, including the Somerset Maugham Prize, the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His work has been shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes. Many of his plays have been staged in the UK and USA, including The Lifeblood, which won British Theatre Guide’s ‘Best Play’ Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, and Liberty, which premiered at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2008. He recently published On Poetry, a general reader’s guide to the craft.

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A new collection from Glyn Maxwell – one of the great poetic stylists of the age, and one of its leading dramatic voices – is always a cause for celebration. With what often feels like an uncanny prescience, How The Hell Are You offers an urgent take on the changing nature of human encounter, at a time when the future seems to have gone ahead without us. This is a book of the left-behind, of the prematurely self-isolated: there are the sonnets left behind by abandoned artificial intelligence; moving poems of memorial and elegy; lost souls, seduced by the empty nostalgia for imperialism, when all has already been lost; voices torn from their owners, bewildered in empty space – and the voice of that space itself, as the blank page grabs the microphone and finally has its say. Maxwell has long regarded poetry as truth-telling, and these often subversively political poems recoil from the lies and fakery of the age to actually ‘tell it like it is’; though how it is is not how we would have it. In its gripping, clear-eyed reckoning, How The Hell Are You is as bold a document of the times as any contemporary poet has yet produced.

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529037735
ISBN 13 
9781529037739
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
64
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