Dear Boy (Faber Poetry)
親密さと自己演出、愛情の不安と欲望の高まりが、速いテンポの詩の中で交互に現れる。率直さと皮肉が同居し、短い詩篇が感情の揺れを鋭く切り出す。
作品情報
親密な言葉が、甘さだけで終わらず不安定さを残す。
『Dear Boy』は、恋愛関係の熱と不安を、機知に富んだ独白の連なりとして立ち上げるデビュー詩集。女装的な声の切り替えや、予期しない視点の反転が、詩の持つ軽やかさと危うさを両方引き出す。
レビュー要約
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スマートでダークな機知に富み、恋愛感情のざらつきと遊び心を同時に楽しめる点が評価されている。いっぽうで、声の切り替えや奔放さは好みを分ける。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Faber & Faber
- 発売日
- 2018-06-12
- ページ数
- 64ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.1 x 0.8 x 19.7 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780571284054
- ISBN-10
- 0571284051
- 価格
- 2449 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British
"These fast-paced poems sting the collection with electricity. They are the quick-fire reports of an ecstatic new voice in contemporary UK poetry." - LA Review of Books Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. In a collection with a taste for ventriloquy and wickedness, and a flair for vocal cross-dressing, the balance of power is always shifting in an unexpected direction - an ingénue masquerades as a femme fatale, a doctor appears more disturbed than his patient, and parents seem more unruly than their children. Eccentric, intimate, arch, anxious, decadent and sometimes mournful, the book's confiding, conversational voices tell stories recognizable and refracted, carried along by the undercurrent on which the collection ebbs and rides: the anguish and energy brought about by a long-distance love affair, which propels and terrorizes and ultimately unites the work. Dear Boy is an irresistible and enlivening collection by a new poet of startling and various gifts.
Emily Berry grew up in London and studied English Literature at Leeds University, and Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. In 2008 she won an Eric Gregory Award. She is a co-editor of the anthology series Stop/Sharpening/Your/Knives and a contributor to The Breakfast Bible , a compendium of breakfasts to be published by Bloomsbury. She works as a freelance writer and editor.
レビュー
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I sat at the bar drinking a glass of bourbon, neat, while reading this arresting collection of poems. Definitely one of the most satisfying afternoons I have enjoyed in a while. There's a very good chance that my mind became more intoxicated with the quality of this poet's verse than it did with the Knob Creek in my glass. This book absolutely needs a publisher on this side of the pond. Highly recommended.
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Emily Berry's prize winning first collection is very good. I bought it not knowing her work until a selection was published in Penguin Modern Poets 1. The poems are all very readable.The title poem "Dear Boy", sees a sophisticated woman dropping gently a young lover who she has caught being unfaithful It is a beautiful blend of resignation with a sharp edge.She mixes passion with wit. I particularly liked her two love poems written to Husband - such passion! Three poems about an odd woman Arlene which intrigued me. By now you will have gathered she at least one fan! I don't wonder this book won a prize. Well worth it
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Very happy with this collection.
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Wonderful new person, to me, having located her work first in a recent Penguin Modern Poets edition, that revived series alluding to ones in the 1960s. I sent a copy to a London friend who loved it, told a friend in Berlin to chase it up, and have preordered this lovely poet's next volume.
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brilliant
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