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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374535507
ISBN-13
9780374535506
eBay Product ID (ePID)
203705398
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bluestone : New and Selected Poems
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-039380
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
How does he do it? The textures of James Lasdun's poems are heady with astonishing details and exhilarating language, yet at the core of each is a steel rod of precision and moral depth. The new poems in Bluestone are more rueful, but the melancholy glistens with wisdom. Losing and loss, age and regret--all, in this master's hands, emit a redemptive light. Here is that rare book--essential on every shelf, in every sou l. , James Lasdun's Bluestone spans a writing life and yet is all of a piece. Unsettling, always keen and honest, these are poems unafraid to show 'a certain chilliness in regard to the purely creaturely.' The mind here is undeterred in its ambition to 'reconcile, forgive, repent' and, yes, glimpse the only certain eternity that stretches only backwards and is found in one's garden. The pleasures also build and stretch: high music, satire, hilarity, and the storyteller's mesmerizing, unrelenting instinct to reveal our 'betrayals, infidelities, / coercions, seductions, lies' in a brazen tour of the 'Museum of the American Present.' Essential poems designed to last, a personal, recalcitrant re-imagined Stonehenge., James Lasdun's extremely accomplished debut volume of poetry astonishes with its range of tone . . . Though A Jump Start is Lasdun's first book, he is a poet already mature in his art., James Lasdun is one of the finest poets writing in English today. His work--at once clarifying, astringent, and sensual--performs the extraordinary feat of mapping the internal life and the external world so that we see, should we have forgotten since Frost, that those borders of sense and sensibility are permeable, and where poetry of this high order, reverberates with 'the need to carve out a niche for ourselves / our singular relation to what we love.' In 'A Peeled Wand,' from the last incandescent section of this volume, the sky over a lake is 'laid out like a jewelers tray / with a sun and opal moon' and the beaver, swimming away, 'fanning a fishtail wake,' leaves a peeled wand in the poet's hands. Lasdun is a diviner--the clear voice of language awakes under his pen., James Lasdun's A Jump Start is a gratifyingly ambitious collection, shimmering with a quick intelligence . . . with the extra bonus of a restlessly inventive mind., Intellectual seriousness . . . sensuous love of words . . . cool unstitching of place . . . [Lasdun] is among the strongest young poets in America., Deeply literary but cool as well . . . Urbane excursions in pastoral, these verses will ensure there are laurels on Lasdun's brow for many years., James Lasdun more than more than justified the decade-long wait for his fourth collection with the darkly witty Water Sessions ., James Lasdun is one of the finest poets writing in English today. His work--at once clarifying, astringent, and sensual--performs the extraordinary feat of mapping the internal life and the external world so that we see, should we have forgotten since Frost, that those borders of sense and sensibility are permeable, and where poetry of this high order, reverberates with 'the need to carve out a niche for ourselves / our singular relation to what we love.' In 'A Peeled Wand,' from the last incandescent section of this volume, the sky over a lake is 'laid out like a jewelers tray / with a sun and opal moon' and the beaver, swimming away, 'fanning a fishtail wake,' leaves a peeled wand in the poet's hands. Lasdun is a diviner--the clear voice of language awakes under his pen., James Lasdun is one of the finest poets writing in English today. His work--at once clarifying, astringent, and sensual--performs the extraordinary feat of mapping the internal life and the external world so that we see, should we have forgotten since Frost, that those borders of sense and sensibility are permeable, and where poetry of this high order,?reverberates with 'the need to carve out a niche for ourselves / our singular relation to what we love.'? In 'A Peeled Wand,' from the last incandescent section of this volume, the sky over a lake is 'laid out like a jewelers tray / with a sun and opal moon' and the beaver, swimming away, 'fanning a fishtail wake,' leaves a peeled wand in the poet's hands.'Lasdun is a diviner--the clear voice of language awakes under his pen., I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start . He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order., James Lasdun's Bluestone spans a writing life and yet is all of a piece. Unsettling, always keen and honest, these are poems unafraid to show 'a certain chilliness in regard to the purely creaturely.' The mind here is undeterred in its ambition to 'reconcile, forgive, repent' and, yes, glimpse the only certain eternity that stretches only backwards and is found in one's garden. The pleasures also build and stretch: high music, satire, hilarity, and the storyteller's mesmerizing, unrelenting instinct to reveal our 'betrayals, infidelities, / coercions, seductions, lies' in a brazen tour of the 'Museum of the American Present.' Essential poems designed to last, a personal, recalcitrant re-imagined Stonehenge. , An expatriate everywhere, James Lasdun views the world with a keen and wondering eye. His beautifully wrought poems are imbued with the power of the uncanny: the familiar made fresh. Rich with revenants and volatile histories, leavened by wit, their sublime understanding transforms the facts and artifacts of contemporary culture., Landscape with Chainsaw was one of the finest books of last year, both funny and incisive in its examination of the male psyche, the condition of the social and cultural outsider and the constant play of negotiation between human social existence and nature., Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite., American readers who want to see rejuvenated form in untroubled action, giving brisk shape to contemporary and classical events, will find it in Lasdun., How does he do it? The textures of James Lasdun's poems are heady with astonishing details and exhilarating language, yet at the core of each is a steel rod of precision and moral depth. The new poems in Bluestone are more rueful, but the melancholy glistens with wisdom. Losing and loss, age and regret--all, in this master's hands, emit a redemptive light. Here is that rare book--essential on every shelf, in every sou l., James Lasdun's A Jump Start is cosmopolitan, urbane, powerful and metrically elegant. His themes are varied--mortality, sexuality, satire--but all the verse is vigorous and well made, the imagery vivid, surprising and memorable. A muted, almost menacing violence often underlies the sensual., An extraordinary deconstruction and reconstruction of landscapes, both natural and interior . . . Lasdun's clear-cutting takes in everything from Celan to Arthurian legend, laying bare the complexities of the poet's own background . . . of being forever a colonist or refugee, never a native., 'The Skaters,' a sweeping tale of punctured naivety in the face of life's vicissitudes, is alone worth the price of entry. 'It Isn't Me' will doubtless illicit a pang of recognition from many readers; 'Blues for Samson,' a candid but measured take on the capricious male libido, also deserves mention. In their reflective patter, formal dexterity, serio-comic tones and depth of feeling, these are the stand-out poems in an excellent book., Glittering brilliance . . . rich visual imagery . . . cornucopian vision." -- Times Literary Supplement "As brilliantly chiselled and metaphorically suggestive as anything in Brodsky or Hecht . . . If you've been waiting for that indisputably important new book of poetry, wait no longer., Landscape with Chainsaw was one of the finest books of last year, both funny and incisive in its examination of the male psyche, the condition of the social and cultural outsider and the constant play of negotiation between human social existence and nature.
Dewey Decimal
821/.914
Synopsis
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 . . ." 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. An Englishman in the Catskills ponders the nature of exile, is chased by yellow jackets, gets a haircut. James Lasdun's subjects are often quotidian--but his treatment of them never is. Under his transformative gaze, the familiar becomes strange, the local becomes foreign, and the minor becomes epic. 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. 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. 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.", 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 . . ." 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. An Englishman in the Catskills ponders the nature of exile, is chased by yellow jackets, gets a haircut. James Lasdun'ssubjects are often quotidian--but his treatment of them never is. Under his transformative gaze, the familiar becomes strange, the local becomes foreign, and the minor becomes epic. 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. 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. 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."
LC Classification Number
PR6062.A735A6 2015
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