News from the front
News from the Front, David Harsent's fifth collection of poems, is a sequence that explores a powerful drama of separation. It uses the voices of several characters: a man is separated by war from his common-law wife, and while he is away she gives birth to his child, a boy. The man writes lett...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford u.a.
Oxford Univ. Press
1993
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Oxford poets
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | News from the Front, David Harsent's fifth collection of poems, is a sequence that explores a powerful drama of separation. It uses the voices of several characters: a man is separated by war from his common-law wife, and while he is away she gives birth to his child, a boy. The man writes letters home and also keeps a journal, which consists partly of a Bestiary, which he hopes to be able to show his son. The woman lives on the edge of Dartmoor, and her fantasies and inner life are so strong as to bring the man almost within reach; the boy falls in with this, and sees his absent father as a hero. |
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| Beschreibung: | 83 S. |
| ISBN: | 0192831038 0-19-283103-8 |