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We Look Like ThisDan Burt10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 21st Century, American, British
Imprint: Lintott Press Publisher: Lintott Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2012) 9781847776334 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (Pub. Apr 2012) 9781847771322 Out of Stock To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
We look like this after things fall apart;
The painting is the autopsy report From an inquest where war took the part Of coroner… from ‘Modern Painters’ With CD from the Poetry Archive We Look Like This anatomizes how history, violence, power, lust and mortality work on us. Burt's formal, muscular language evokes a world of war, want, cruelty and hope, as well as childhood among ‘tough Jews’ in Philadelphia, dominated by his father Joe, son of Ukrainian immigrants, butcher, boxer and, late in life, coastal fisherman. Joe's last world, Barnegat inlet and the sea off the New Jersey coast, are counterpoint to and salvation from hard streets for father and son. Cover painting Frank Auerbach, Head of Gerda Boehm, 1978–9 (detail). Oil on board, 56.5 x 71.1 cm (22 1/4 x 28 in). Private collection. Copyright © Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art. Photograph courtesy of Yvonne Burt. I Who He Was 1–5 Death Mask Slowly Sounds the Bell II Certain Windows III CircumcisionIndices Inquisition Rosebud Ishmael IV Accounting Death Rattle Blind Date Texaco Saturday Afternoon Opera Cabaletta All the Dark Years For John Crook Homage for a Waterman Facsimile Folio John Winthrop’s Ghost V Pastiche Poetry Reading After Lunch Little Black Dress Kept Pas de Deux Winter Mornings Yester-year Revenant Sie Kommt The Faithful End of the Affair VI Decorating the Nursery Wine Circle Dodge-Ball Blue Rinse Matrons Momentum Three Sonnets on the Coup de Grâce Uphill to the Right Manqué VII Compounds Modern Painters A Brewing Tale The Lesson Rigoletto Summa Motes Un Coup de Dés Identity Beside a Cove The Institute Trade Notes
Praise for Dan Burt
'I was deeply moved by Every Wrong Direction; it is filled with courage, honesty and grace - and quite a bit of sheer page turning thrill. Burt tells it all beautifully and poignantly and what lingers is an impression of exemplary intelligence and daring.'
Alain de Botton 'Dan Burt is a fine poet, and this memoir has all the sensitivity and vigilance you might expect from a writer with such a background. But his prose also has a robustness and documentary power that continually startles and engages.' Sir Andrew Motion 'Admirably gutsy and hearty... revealing a gift for lively mimetic narrative' Rory Waterman, TLS '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 '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
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