作品情報

歴史、政治、自伝が交差する地点へ走り込む。

都会的な感触のなかに過去の影を差し込み、個人的記憶と公共的時間がずれながら重なる。詩集としての密度が高く、英詩の語り口の強さが際立つ。

書籍情報

出版社

Oxford Univ Pr

発売日

1995-12-21

ページ数

54ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

13.97 x 0.64 x 21.59 cm

ISBN-13

9780192832313

ISBN-10

019283231X

価格

5144 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Classics

"You can't get there from here, but if you could, you'd have to take the train." Ghost Train , Sean O'Brien's fourth collection of poems, rides the network of routes into history, politics, autobiography, and the imaginative region where they meet. The tone of this new collection is no longer angry and political--a departure from his previous works, The Indoor Park , The Frighteners , and HMS Glasshouse --but has become almost elegiac and celebratory, sombre and "romantic." His most subtle work to date, the poems are not mellow and accepting of a post-Thatcherite Britain, but more aghast and troubled. O'Brien's writing is traditional in style, but he deploys an altogether contemporary vocabulary and his sense of rhythm is paramount. This is a moving book.

About the Author: Sean O'Brien is joint poetry reviewer for the Sunday Times . In 1992-4 he was Northern Arts Literary Fellow and in 1993 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for HMS Greenhouse .

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