The Chain

AcknowledgmentsInvocation Lamentation on Ur The Word The Tank Child's Drawing: "Boy Holding a Ball at a Funeral" In the ParkThe Safety of SundayUnder the Mountain The Line Song Crossing the Border The Denial Terminus The AppointmentThe Death Radio Great Island The Dolphin's Dream For a Young Painter The Octopus The Library Shame A Western Eclipse The Perspective Some Larger MotionThe Canoe The Climb The Distance Between The Web The Work The Souls

Summary

In "The Chain", Sleigh explores the nature of memory and its ability to recast events in contradictory ways as it links individual lives to history. The book takes the form of a series of elegies, portraits and love poems.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Sleigh
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.1996
• EAN: 9780226762418
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76241-8
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 170 g
• Series: Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets Series PP (CHUP); Phoenix Poets (CHUP)
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry