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Drowned Book
| Author |
O'Brien, Sean |
| Price |
£8.99 <convert> |
| Biblio |
0330447629;
pp. 80 |
| ISBN13 |
9780330447621 |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Published |
September 2007 |
| Publisher |
Pan Macmillan |
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| Many of the poems in Sean O'Brien's new collection take their emotional tenor and imaginative cue from his acclaimed translation of Dante's Inferno, and occupy a dark, flooded, subterranean world, as dramatically compelling as it is disquieting. Circumstances have compelled O'Brien to return repeatedly to the elegiac form, and "The Drowned Book" contains a number of powerfully moving poems written in memory of fellow poets and artists. "The Drowned Book" again shows O'Brien a master of the authoritative line, and underscores his pre-eminence among contemporary English poets. Praise for Sean O'Brien's verse translation of Dante's Inferno: "Compelling, with a steady incandescence to the language" - "Independent". "All life is written in Dante's burning pages, and Sean O'Brien is to be congratulated on his expert rehabilitation of a classic" - "Spectator". "Combines urgent readability with a muscular forcefulness" - "The Economist". |
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