One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich - Softcover

Graham Fulton

 
9780992740917: One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich

Synopsis

If you don t want to see fear in a handful of dust, then look away now. How do we control the uncontrollable or reconcile the irreconcilable? Should we accept the world as it is or rebel against it? Whether we choose love or hate, make the law or break it, go mad or snatch brief moments of happiness, we all must cling to someone or something to complete the the me-shaped space of our lives. One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich is book of poems about entropy and cruelty, shrapnel heads and airport toilets, digestive biscuits and marmalade. It s a 1970s double album about trying to keep calm in a random and accelerating universe. It s a mercilessly bleak, blackly humorous contemporary Totentanz of shoplifters, bankers, looters, dead poets and men who can t tie their own shoelaces.

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About the Author

Graham Fulton s many books of poetry include Humouring the Iron Bar Man (1990), Knights of the Lower Floors (1994), Open Plan (2011), Full Scottish Breakfast (2011), Upside Down Heart (2012) and Reclaimed Land (2013). He lives in Scotland.

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