The Thunder Mutters : 101 Poems for the Planet
Oswald, Alice2006
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The Thunder Mutters : 101 Poems for the Planet / Alice Oswald
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United Kingdom : Faber and Faber, 2006
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Taking for her subject our human planet, or what Robert Lowell called "this sweet volcanic cone", Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems which map the border between the personal and natural worlds - from work poems at one end of the scale (songs for lowering anchors, or for cutting cotton) to metamorphic poems in which the human has crossed entirely over into the non-human. In between, there are vivid portraits of the intermediate state in which most of us spend our lives.Including poems by William Barnes, Robert Frost, John Clare, Gerard Manley-Hopkins. W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbery and many others, The Thunder Mutters casts its net worldwide, historically and geographically, engaging restlessly with the many-centered energies of the natural world.
ISBN:
0571218571
Dewey class:
821 OSW821.008036
Language:
English
BRN:
2823939
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