| Star City: Including the Coalville Divan and Excellent Men Contributor(s): Gallas, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1857547438 ISBN-13: 9781857547436 Publisher: Carcanet Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2004 Annotation: Two different paths are taken in the latest collection of poetry by John Gallas, which comprises two volumes in one. Reflecting the poet's fascination with eastern literature, which he tends to experience in Leicester and its environs, "The Coalville Divan ponders a number of themes and uses the great scripts of Persian sages to create moral, miniature movies to return a proverb to the particular lives, moments, and places that made it. "Excellent Men focuses on subjects like Samuel Beckett, Frederico Fellini, and Alfred Schnittke, providing some of the lit-up males of a writer's heart, claimed by admiration, kinship, amazement, love, and a good laugh. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| Physical Information: 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: John Gallas's new book is two volumes in one. The Coalville Divan builds on the poet's fascination with Eastern literature which he tends to experience in Leicester and its environs, where he lives and works. These poems ponder a number of his besetting themes. How dull is Wisdom, then? What it wants is Ungathering. The Coalville Divan makes moral, miniature movies out of the great scripts of old Persian sages, each of the one hundred sonnets returning a proverb to the particular lives, moments and places that made it. These little, colour narratives put Life back up there with its Meaning. Volume two has its mind on different things. If Beckett comes before Oort, and Fellini is next to the Unknown Soldier; if Alfred Schnittke can almost touch the muezzin who was a tape recorder, and William Bees VC is three steps away from a Mongolian marmot-killer, then it must be Excellent Men. |