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Zusatztext It’s in distilling universal experiences that Maxwell shows the power of his oblique, understated approach and of his brilliant fusing of elaborate metrical patterns with the cadences of speech. Giving a pin sharp sense of the speaker’s feeling and tone, he can create emotions out of all proportion to their overt but not real object . By leaving it to us to find the real object behind the overt one, he makes the meaning and emotion rootthemselves more deeply in our minds. Informationen zum Autor Glyn Maxwell has won several awards for his poetry, including the Somerset Maugham Prize, the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His work has been shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes. Many of his plays have been staged in the UK and USA, including The Lifeblood , which won British Theatre Guide’s ‘Best Play’ Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, and Liberty , which premiered at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2008. He recently published On Poetry , a general reader’s guide to the craft. Klappentext A new collection from Glyn Maxwell - one of the great poetic stylists of the age, and one of its leading dramatic voices - is always a cause for celebration. With what often feels like an uncanny prescience, How The Hell Are You offers an urgent take on the changing nature of human encounter, at a time when the future seems to have gone ahead without us. This is a book of the left-behind, of the prematurely self-isolated: there are the sonnets left behind by abandoned artificial intelligence; moving poems of memorial and elegy; lost souls, seduced by the empty nostalgia for imperialism, when all has already been lost; voices torn from their owners, bewildered in empty space - and the voice of that space itself, as the blank page grabs the microphone and finally has its say. Maxwell has long regarded poetry as truth-telling, and these often subversively political poems recoil from the lies and fakery of the age to actually 'tell it like it is'; though how it is is not how we would have it. In its gripping, clear-eyed reckoning, How The Hell Are You is as bold a document of the times as any contemporary poet has yet produced. Vorwort The brilliant new collection from a major voice in contemporary poetry Zusammenfassung The brilliant new collection from a major voice in contemporary poetry...
