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About the author
Alexander Trocchi was born on the 30th July 1925 in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and Italian father. On graduating from the University of Glasgow in the early 1950s, he obtained a travelling grant that allowed him to relocate to continental Europe.
He first lived in Paris and edited the literary magazine Merlin, which published Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue, and Pablo Neruda. It was in Paris that he acquired a lifelong heroin addiction, which continued after moving to America and settling in New York.
In the 1960s Trocchi lived in Kensington, London where he later died of pneumonia in 1984.
Summary
Presents a collection of verse that reveals lesser-known facets of the novelist Alexander Trocchi's writing. This book features poems that range from the lyricism of his early love poetry and reflections on his involvement in drug culture to the penetrating comments on contemporary figures and events of his later pieces.
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The poems in this book are reminiscent of John Donne and the metaphysical poets. Alex writes about spirit, flesh and death and the vision that comes through the flesh.
