In John Updike's Room Contributor(s): Wiseman, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889842736 ISBN-13: 9780889842731 Publisher: Porcupine's Quill OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2005 Annotation: Time's circle draws us in', Christopher Wiseman writes in one of his finest poems, and it's the continuous, poem after poem, vivid and tender evocation of Time that gives this collection its cachet, its utterly distinctive and, as the pages turn, increasingly obvious stand-alone quality. This is a voice which cares not how nakedly and vulnerably it speaks its truths: the brittle safety-first impersonality of post-modernism is kept far hence, like Eliot's dog; if we will only enter into these finely-crafted poems with half the longing that they so richly have for remembered bliss, for the faint persistent music' (from the same Wiseman poem) of our own lives and the lives of those we have known or admired or even, and not seldom here, adored -- sporting heroes, dance-hall tunes, film beauties, early and also late loves -- then, ah then, we'll know we've been allowed into an emotion-laden space that's wider and deeper and, for sure, less predictable than what the fashions of the age have trained us to expect, to endure, to put up with.' |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian |
Dewey: 811.54 |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.04" W x 8.76" (0.86 lbs) 221 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
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Publisher Description: Chris Wiseman stayed at the Marine Hotel in North Berwick, Scotland, in 2000, about eighteen months after the American novelist John Updike. Wiseman believes he stayed in the same room as that in which Updike is reported to have watched High Society (1956), a film that starred Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. |