Testament

von Robert Crawford

80 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh full-length collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence he writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with 'Testament', a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows in Testament how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human.

• Reihe: Jonathan Cape
• ISBN: 9780224098076
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.07.2014
• Größe: 198 x 131 mm
• Verlag: Vintage