History, A
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Author: Dan Burt
A History is an elegiac 10-poem sequence, written about and in memory of Jill Robinson, a vital and continual presence in the poet’s life for almost seven decades, until her death from cancer in 2018. Burt’s eye is acute, unsentimental, and self-critical, unflinching in its depiction of illness, and unrequited love. His language has a Yeatsian severity, charged by vulnerability and an acute and expansive historical awareness.Published to coincide with his personal- political memoir Every Wrong Direction (Carcanet),A History is a major work from a writer whose life story and poetic sensibility takes us to places not often captured in poetry.
ISBN 9781913513368. Prototype Publishing. pb. 32 pages.
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A History is an elegiac 10-poem sequence, written about and in memory of Jill Robinson, a vital and continual presence in the poet’s life for almost seven decades, until her death from cancer in 2018. Burt’s eye is acute, unsentimental, and self-critical, unflinching in its depiction of illness, and unrequited love. His language has a Yeatsian severity, charged by vulnerability and an acute and expansive historical awareness.Published to coincide with his personal- political memoir Every Wrong Direction (Carcanet),A History is a major work from a writer whose life story and poetic sensibility takes us to places not often captured in poetry.
ISBN 9781913513368. Prototype Publishing. pb. 32 pages.
available