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Searched For TextDan Burt![]() 10% off
Categories: 21st Century, American
Imprint: Lintott Press Publisher: Lintott Press Available as: Paperback (32 pages) 9781847770547 £7.95 £7.16
Searched for Text is a first chapbook collection of poems by a poet alive to the challenges of traditional form, finding ways of expressing themes that are intensely real and many-layered in time, culture and society. His elegies, poems of love and landscape, are uneasily sharp and political. He allows no sentimentality to blur the deep sentiment of his experiences: the American childhood and youth, his growing love of England and his finding places in which to be, always a little uneasily, at home. In 'Un Coup de Des' he says:
Chance authors all we do, The plot's contrived in retrospect. Spied once I still look out for you; Chance authors all we do. A sea bird shot, a woman met Ungloving who then strolls from view Alters to fate as we reflect. Chance authors all we do, The plot's contrived in retrospect.
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Blue Rinse Matron Wine Circle Slowly Sounds the Bell The Lesson Compounds Circumcision Ishmael Inquisition Dodge Ball Poetry Reading Facsimile Folio Winter Mornings Revenant Sie Kommt End of the Affair Decorating the Nursery Tart Little Black Dress Un Coup de Des Beside a Cove
'His language is terse to the point of brutality; the verbs ferocious... his core conviction, formed by the history of the twentieth century and a lifetime in a non-literary world, is of "the curtain falling on the Enlightenment".' Elaine Feinstein, PN Review
Praise for Dan Burt
'Admirably gutsy and hearty... revealing a gift for lively mimetic narrative'
Rory Waterman, TLS 'the verse flexes muscle after muscle. Burt is excellent on place and occasion... The writing... can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. Certain Windows is a very good book...' George Szirtes, Poetry Book Society 'Full of hard-won wisdom and beautiful lines, it's testament to the transforming power of poetry.' Suzy Feay, the Independent This is a major debut. Burt's tough, terse language explores the human truth reached when all protective skin is stripped away. Elaine Feinstein, The Times, 26th May 2012. 'Dan Burt investigates the gaps between people, their cultures, their places of living. Between new and old worlds, between lives of deprivation and comfort, between inner and outer selves, there is something gritty and disturbing working away. From cynicism and anger to deeply felt and even traumatic elegy, these are the revelations and considerations of a life and the lives that contribute to and make one's own. In poems and prose that reach deep down into the reservoir of human loss, distress and need, comes hope. He is a writer of intensity and passion who is able to be wry when needs be. There are the costs, but there is also renewal.' John Kinsella |
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