My Life Asleep (Oxford Poets)
My Life Asleep is a poetry collection that moves through dreams, memory, and selfhood. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
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Work Information
A compact poetry collection shaped by dreams and memory.
My Life Asleep returns repeatedly to dreams, memory, and selfhood, 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
- 1999-06-24
- Pages
- 44 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.45 x 0.76 x 19.05 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780192881038
- ISBN-10
- 0192881035
- Price
- 1785 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British
A vigorous collection of poems, My Life Asleep never succumbs to gloom, despite Jo Shapcott's black humor and sometimes macabre tone. This is her third collection of poetry.
Jo Shapcott is the joint anthologist with Matthew Sweeney of Emergency Kit . She lives in London.