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Face of it
| Author |
Langley, R.F. |
| Price |
£8.95 <convert> |
| Biblio |
1857549007;
pp. 64 |
| ISBN13 |
9781857549003 |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Published |
April 2007 |
| Publisher |
Carcanet Press Ltd |
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| Roger Langley's poems explore perception. They take their bearings from forms as diverse as Renaissance hermeticism, a Greek vase, Rauschenberg's painting, Bottom's dream, a green beetle. Here the world may chime, like a building by Palladio, or disappear on a parting wave as in a film by Bergman. Surprise and truth come together. Things are both ordinary and vivid, distinct and universal. Langley's poems take delight in the sound and sense of language: for him, etymology can be revelation. In the interplay of word and object, each poem attempts an epiphany. |
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