Still life with feeding snake
Burnside, John, 1955-2017
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From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad authorised versions on the one hand, and new discoveries, terrible dangers, and everyday miracles on the other. As we grow, that world expands further, to include new species, lost continents, the realm of the dead and the lives of others: cosmonauts swim in distant space, unseen creatures pass through a garden at dusk; we are surrounded by delectable mysteries. The question of this contested, liminal world sits at the centre of 'Still Life With Feeding Snake', whose poems live at the edge of loss, or on the cusp of epiphany, always seeking that brief instant of grace when we see what is before us, and not just what we expected to find.
Main title:
Still life with feeding snake / John Burnside.
Author:
Burnside, John, 1955-, author
Publisher:
London : Cape Poetry, 2017.
Collation:
89 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781910702413 (pbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1838520
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