Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Burning of the Books and Other PoemsCondition: NewEAN: 9781852248420ISBN: 9781852248420Publisher: Bloodaxe Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/24/2009Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: George SzirtesLanguage: EnglishDescription: The title-poem of George Szirtes' "The Burning of the Books and Other Poems" is the core of this collection of narrative sequences by a writer who came to Britain as a child refugee after the Hungarian Uprising. Book burning is associated with the Nazis' burning of what they considered to be subversive books in 1933, but the practice has a long history, right down to our own day. In this particular case the burning refers to the library of Kien, the scholar, in Elias Canetti's novel "Auto Da Fé". The poems follow and expand from the events of Canetti's book in a variety of forms not previously used by Szirtes. Two further sequences are concerned with history and documentary, one about the discovery of small snippets of film recording the liberation of Penig concentration camp where Szirtes' mother was imprisoned, and another of songs concerning war and documentary photography. There are also prose poems, monologues, a series of canzoni, a group of poems exploring the origins of love in childhood, and another based on the mythical travels of Sir John Mandeville about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. The book, as a whole, constitutes an exploration of the range and flexibility of a voice attuned to the patterns of history and the way such patterns transform our sense of the present. Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Poetry & DramaRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Burning of the Books and Other Poems
Title: The Burning of the Books and Other Poems
EAN: 9781852248420
ISBN: 9781852248420
Release Date: 09/24/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Burning of the Books and Other Poems
Number of Pages: 104 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication Year: 2009
Topic: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.3 in
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 0.4 Oz
Author: George Szirtes
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback