The Marble Fly (Oxford Poets)
The Marble Fly is a poetry collection that moves through myth, image and precision, and concision. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
Work Information
A compact poetry collection shaped by myth and image and precision.
The Marble Fly returns repeatedly to myth, image and precision, and concision, building a collection from exact images and low-key tension. The result is controlled on the surface but lingering in its aftereffects.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Pr
- Published
- 1997-04-01
- Pages
- 56 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 0.76 x 19.05 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780192832566
- ISBN-10
- 0192832565
- Price
- 546 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British
The Marble Fly , is Jamie McKendrick's third collection of poems following The Kiosk on the Brink and his widely acclaimed collection The Sirocco Room . The title refers to an image on a Pompeian wall-relief and fuses McKendrick's interests in the classical world and natural history. These forty poems, each pertaining to a particular history--whether natural or unnatural, personal or impersonal--focus on modes of transport and their relation to the natural world. As eloquent as they are intricate, the poems work on both a literal and metaphorical level, and cover such topics as Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle , the construction of canals, the first airplane, and spiders sent up into space in the Skylab.
About the Author Jamie McKendrick , winner of the Eric Gregory Award, is the author of two previous books of poetry, including The Sirocco Room , named Poetry Book of the Year by The Independent on Sunday and the Daily Telegraph , and The Kiosk on the Brink .