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Autore: | Aiken Conrad <1889-1973> |
Titolo: | Turns and Movies : The Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken |
Pubblicazione: | Freshwater Seas |
Soggetto non controllato: | Poetry |
Fiction | |
Literature And Fiction (General) | |
Persona (resp. second.): | BethuneRobert <1954-> |
Sommario/riassunto: | What Spoon River Anthology does for a Midwestern small town, Turns and Movies does for the world of vaudeville. Like Masters, like Aiken: passions, betrayals, secrets, sins, victories, defeats, and inevitable losing struggles against age and death are the stuff of this work. And that's only the first part of the book.The rest of the book consists of a set of four long poems: "Discordants", "Evensong", "Disenchantment", and "This Dance of Life". In these poems Aiken takes on a subject that strikes home now just as much as it did then: what happens to love when the flame of romance flickers, or even goes out? Aiken's men - he always writes from a man's point of view - make a variety of decisions, but for Aiken, the underlying determinant of all of those choices, for good or ill, is the ongoing, quiet, patient force of life itself: "A light wind blew; the curtains stirred; The east grew pale; a sleepy bird/Sang a few notes, then life was still: A calm, unhurrying, soulless will." Aiken's words may be a almost a century old, but they still speak powerfully today. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Turns and Movies |
Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken, The | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Turns and Movies : The Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken |
ISBN: | 1-933311-66-5 |
Formato: | Musica |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910153624803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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