The Wrecking Light

Informationen zum Autor ROBIN ROBERTSON is a 30-year veteran food writer, cooking teacher, and chef specializing in vegan and vegetarian cooking. She is the author of 20 vegetarian or vegan cookbooks, including Vegan Planet and 1,000 Vegan Recipes , and is a regular columnist for VegNews magazine and VegCooking.com. She operates a vegan-focused website and blog at RobinRobertson.com and lives in Virginia. Klappentext Robin Robertson's fourth collection is an intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary. The poet's gaze-whether on the natural world or the details of his own life-is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry, and disarming humor.Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems here pitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of the human. This is a book of considerable grandeur and sweep that confirms Robertson as one of the most arresting and powerful poets at work today. Zusammenfassung Robin Robertson’s fourth collection is an intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary. The poet’s gaze—whether on the natural world or the details of his own life—is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry, and disarming humor. Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems here pitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of the human. This is a book of considerable grandeur and sweep that confirms Robertson as one of the most arresting and powerful poets at work today.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Robertson
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9780547483337
• ISBN: 978-0-547-48333-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 9 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Eastern Europe, France, Poetry, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / German, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Places, POETRY: Ancient & Classical, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / General, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / French, POETRY: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / Scandinavian