Breathe Now, Breathe
Jane Duran's debut collection traces loss, silence, and the movement of a life across places.
Work Information
An early collection that writes movement and loss with quiet intensity.
Family memory and the feeling of travel emerge gradually through Duran's restrained voice. The sequence of short poems builds a deep sense of personal history.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Pr
- Published
- 1995-01-01
- Pages
- 72 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 0.51 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781870612524
- ISBN-10
- 1870612523
- Price
- 851 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection of 1995. "Jane Duran’s debut should not go unheralded. She delivers her courageous and richly textured poems with a quiet authority. This collection warrants celebration." – Michael Donaghy
Jane Duran was born in Cuba to a Spanish father and American mother, and brought up in the United States and in Chile. Her first collection Breathe Now, Breathe (Enitharmon, 1995) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Enitharmon brought out a second collection in 2002, Silences from the Spanish Civil War. Her third collection, Coastal (Enitharmon, 2005) received a PBS Recommendation. Her poetry has been widely anthologised. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2005. She lives in London with her husband and son.