| Scenery and Agriculture Contributor(s): Beach, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0864737599 ISBN-13: 9780864737595 Publisher: Victoria University Press OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Australian & Oceanian - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.3 |
| Physical Information: 64 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: David Beach has written a collection of nature poems that reject easy ideas of romanticism or landscape poetry. Although the poems have a deep connection to the landscape, they tend to focus on the everyday rather than the scenic, on the matters at hand rather than grand themes; these are poems to be read in any circumstance, but particularly where society is confronted with nature and the effects humans have wrought upon it. The winner of the 2008 Prize in Modern Letters from the International Institute of Modern Letters, Beach is a kind of antipoet, reflexively suspicious of language's ability to dazzle or seduce and thriving on the disjunction between high-flown literary associations and the insistently prosaic. |