Selected Poems Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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This selection of the best poems from six remarkable collections reveals that all the strength and sensuality and strangeness is in there from the start. This is a metaphysical poetry for our age: rooted, steeped in the physical, but stretching for lyric completion, philosophical clarity, emotional truth. These poems achieve their seriousness not through hectoring argument but through their lightness of touch, their wit, their tenderness, their music. Roberts has always been a poet who, in the words of Lavinia Greenlaw, ‘inspires profound meditation on the nature of the soul, the body, the stars and the heart, and sparks revelation’. He is also formally and thematically diverse, restlessly exploring a wide range of subjects from Cold-War fear to love lyrics, genetics to elegies, always returning to the crucial, elemental themes – the mapping of experience and the search for meaning.

After Drysalter, his double-prize-winning tour de force, we now have this opportunity to observe the whole arc to date: the consistency of grace and power, curiosity and risk, passion and intelligence that – together – make Michael Symmons Roberts such a thrilling and essential poet.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2016
5 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House
SIZE
568.3
KB

More Books by Michael Symmons Roberts

Edgelands Edgelands
2011
Drysalter (Enhanced Edition) Drysalter (Enhanced Edition)
2013
Deaths of the Poets Deaths of the Poets
2017
Corpus Corpus
2010
Mancunia Mancunia
2017
Comma Comma
2013