Legion
記憶と喪失、暴力の影をたどる詩集。神話や宗教の響きを交えながら、暗く緊張感のある抒情で心の荒野を描く。
作品情報
沈んだ感情を、切れ味のある言葉で凝縮した一冊。
David Harsent の2005年刊詩集。Faber and Faber から刊行された 82 ページの作品で、後の代表作へつながる暗い抒情と高密度のイメージが際立つ。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Faber & Faber
- 発売日
- 2005-08-18
- ページ数
- 96ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13 x 0.9 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780571228096
- ISBN-10
- 0571228097
- 価格
- 3019 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/History & Criticism/Criticism & Theory
The title-sequence of David Harsent's new collection of poems, Legion , offers a report from an unnamed war, in which various images of conflict accrue without cohering, as if the reader is locked inside the crisis together with the protagonists. In a series of momentary and abruptly discontinuous images, laconic despatches from a war-zone, a fictional testimony begins to take shape - an array of different voices giving witness to war and the consequences of war. In its formal mastery of the poetic sequence, Legion is a distinguished successor to David Harsent's previous collection, Marriage .
David Harsent has published thirteen collections of poetry. Legion won the 2005 Forward Prize for Poetry. Night (2011), a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the Costa, Forward and T. S. Eliot poetry prizes and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Fire Songs (2014) won the T. S. Eliot Prize. His most recent collection, Skin, was published in 2024.
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Five Stars
Glad I got this.
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Worth reading
The first sequence - i.e. the title poem - is made up of vignettes of an imagined conflict in a geographically ambiguous place. In doing so, it comments on the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and - it seems to me - Northern Ireland. It's an interesting approach because it allows Harsent to address the brutality of war without speaking for anyone in particular. I can't remember the rest of the collection but I seem to remember it was fine.
関連する文学賞
- フォワード詩賞 第14回（2005年） ・Excellence Award