Conjure
Conjure is a poetry collection that moves through language, imagination, and memory. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
Work Information
A compact poetry collection shaped by language and imagination.
Conjure returns repeatedly to language, imagination, and memory, 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
- Picador
- Published
- 2000-09-08
- Pages
- 64 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.8 x 0.6 x 19.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780330391108
- ISBN-10
- 0330391100
- Price
- 796 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British
Conjure is Michael Donaghy’s third collection, and his most accomplished to date, displaying the same trademark elegance, sleight of hand and philosophical wit that have established his reputation as a ‘poet’s poet’. But while these poems time their feints and punches as well as ever, often the poet’s guard is deliberately kept down: Conjure ’s elegies and disappearing acts, love songs and tortuous journeys represent the most challenging, vulnerable and moving work Donaghy has yet written. ‘Among the finest American poets of his generation’ Robert McPhillips ‘The artistry of Donaghy’s work seems to me exemplary’ Sean O’Brien ‘The fine-tuned precision of a twelve-speed bike’ Alfred Corn
Michael Donaghy was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954. In 1985 he moved to London, where he worked as a teacher and traditional Irish musician. He died in 2004.
Reviews
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A beautiful read
I was introduced to this collection by a friend who brought it to a book group - I don't love all the poems but there are some moments of real beauty in here - the title poem Conjure is really amazing - and it is worth buying the book for this poem alone - it is a beautiful poem which could equally be about the narrator's relationship with his son or his father.