Harm
Harm is a poetry collection that moves through violence, survival, and tension. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
Work Information
A compact poetry collection shaped by violence and survival.
Harm returns repeatedly to violence, survival, and tension, 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
- Chatto & Windus
- Published
- 1994-03-27
- Pages
- 64 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.5 x 0.6 x 21.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780701161064
- ISBN-10
- 070116106X
- Price
- 2094 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/History & Criticism/Movements & Periods
The poems in this, Alan Jenkin's third collection, speak of the harm done and suffered - most frequently in the name of love - in the course of lives gone adrift among lost causes, chance meetings and missed chances. A new directness and simplicity, and throughout, a raw urgency of personal feeling, inform a voice that is as resourceful as in Jenkin's earlier volumes, and continues to salvage a 'fugitive lyricism' (as one reviewer put it) from harsh and dissonant realities. 'By turns jocular, disquieting, sexy and inventive'-PETER READING, SUNDAY TIMES 'Jenkins' poetry is exhilarating. . . It is charged with erotic energy, rage, sorrow and confusion'-TLS 'Stylish, Savage, unforgiving'-HUGO WILLIAMS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Jenkins has a restless mind: following his poetry gives his readers a rocky ride, but also a rewarding one. '-PETER PORTER, OBSERVER.
Alan Jenkins was born in 1955. He lives in London and works for the Times Literary Supplement.