It is a gathering that affirms Lasdun's position as, to quote Anthony Hecht, one of "the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English.". His most recent books are Bluestone: New and Selected Poems and Victory, a pair of short novels, one of which, Afternoon of a Faun is published separately in the US (the other was previously published in. He has published novels, a memoir, collections of poetry and books of short stories.
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Now, in Bluestone, which selects from all three of his previous collections and includes poems from his fourth, Water Sessions, previously available only in the U.K., readers will be able to appreciate the full sweep of this capacious talent: his delicate wit, his gift for invention, his keen observational eye. James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in the US. Lasdun has been winning acclaim since his first collection, 1988's A Jump Start-Helen Vendler has lauded his ability to give "brisk shape to contemporary and classical events" The New York Times has praised the "sharp, slicing imagery" of his work. Under his transformative gaze, the familiar becomes strange, the local becomes foreign, and the minor becomes epic. James Lasdun's subjects are often quotidian-but his treatment of them never is. Eliot, and Forward prizes in poetry and he was the winner of the inaugural U.K. He has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the Los Angeles Times, T. He has published two novels as well as several collections of short stories and poetry. An Englishman in the Catskills ponders the nature of exile, is chased by yellow jackets, gets a haircut. James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. It is a moral tale in which Good and Evil do battle in the minds of its characters. it offers are those of narrative and philosophy. " A man on his way to see his therapist encounters a female police officer in an elevator and feels himself regressing to "the original essence, the masculine / criminal salt." A teenager is tricked into eating a spoonful of lime pickle by his girlfriend's father. The Fall Guy is a thriller that belongs on the literary top shelf with Graham Greene and Charles McCarry, a thriller in the way Henry James’s The Turn Of The Screw is a ghost story. Two men grapple with jumper cables, trying "to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm machinery. " A man on his way to see his therapist encounters a female police officer in an elevator and feels himself regressing to "the original essence, the masculine / criminal salt." A A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive best A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive best Two men grapple with jumper cables, trying "to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm machinery.
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