Graywolf press feb 2015 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the 2012 Costa Poetry Award, the latest collection by Kathleen Jamie, 'the leading Scottish poet of her generation' (The Sunday Times)See when it all unravels--the entire projectreduced to threads of moss fleeing a nor'wester;d'you ever imagine chasing just one strand, letting it lead youto an unsung cleft in a rock, a place you could take to, dig yourself in--but what are the chances of that Of the birds, few remain all winter; half a dozen wadersmediate between sea and shore, that space confirmed--don't laugh--by your own work. --from 'Materials'The Overhaul continues Kathleen Jamie's lyric inquiry into the aspects of the world our rushing lives elide, and even threaten. Whether she is addressing birds or rivers, or the need to accept loss, or, sometimes, the desire to escape our own lives, her poetry is earthy and rigorous, her language at once elemental and tender. The Overhaul is a midlife book of repair, restitution, and ultimately hope--of the wisest and most worldly kind.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror--an utterly original and blackly comic debut In the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates: Who is he Where did he come from And, crucially, what does he know In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts 'perfect confessions,' is retrieved from the vaults. Over the course of four days, a cavalcade of voices rises up from the Akkad boy, each one striving to tell his or her own story. Some of these voices are familiar: Osama bin Laden, L. Paul Bremer, Condoleezza Rice, Mark Zuckerberg. Others are less so. But each one has a role in the world shaped by the war on terror. Each wants to tell us: This is the world as it exists in our innermost selves. This is what has been and what might be. This is The Infernal. …