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Dancers in DaylightPoems 1995-2002Anthony Howell
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (144 pages) (Pub. May 2003) 9780856463648 Out of Stock
In the title poem, set in Rome, a chance meeting with the dying Rudolf Nureyev strikes the poet, himself a dancer, as hallucinatory. Along with the poems prompted by his mother’s death, it is one of several unsettling poems in this collection. Yet a celebratory strain runs through the book, providing a counter-balance: there are poems which celebrate active life, vigorous sexuality, and the subtle steps of the tango. The result is a characteristically robust and varied collection which continues the vein of subtle dandyism for which Howell is renowned. |
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