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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789148103321

Titolo

Still life : poems from the cheshire prize for literature 2010 / / edited by Emma Rees ; front cover image, Luiz Meléndez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chester, [England] : , : University of Chester Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-908258-80-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (115 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ReesEmma

MeléndezLuiz

Disciplina

823.0108

Soggetti

Short stories, English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

In a hot Spanish kitchen a little boy's mouth waters as he daydreams about the citrus tang of freshly-squeezed juice; in the weak sunlight outside a Russian Orthodox church, splinters of wood dance like so many motes of dust; and in a camp in Germany three prisoners of war look upwards and marvel at the near-weightless liberty of the birds they see. These are some of the exquisite moments almost visual in their vibrancy that are captured in the pages of Still Life. In this rich and textured anthology, the mundane is transfi gured as poets attempt to answer or at least to establish the big ques