Flame Tree: Selected Poems - Softcover

Kevin Hart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185224545X ISBN 13: 9781852245450

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

Kevin Hart is not only one of Australia's most important poets but a major figure in world poetry. He is a visionary writer who has taken his bearings as much from English Romanticism and European Modernism as from the Bible, Plato and Meister Eckhart. His poetry is at once sensuous and mysterious, visionary yet grounded in the lush, tropical landscapes of Australia. Hart's poetry is dual in nature and inspiration, embracing the pain and passion of humanity at the same time as it evokes the immanence of God in the world. His double-edged poetry is both radiant and grounded, sensuous and searching, casting both light and shadow on what can be named while tracing the borderlines of what must be left unnamed. It does not betray these borders, but respects their mystery and complexity. As Hart has written: "The best conductor of mystery is clarity. The true bearer of complexity is simplicity."

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Review:

Kevin Hart is one of the finest poets writing in English today. I admire his erudition and his imagination, the way history, art, myth, literature and many things come together in his poetry. This book will be a feast for those who want poetry to be both metaphysics and song. An absolutely original and indispensable poet. --Charles Simic

The most outstanding Australian poet of his generation...One of the major living poets in the English language...Kevin Hart is an erudite poet, but converts his learning into passion. He is a visionary of desire and its limits. --Harold Bloom

Elegant, deeply philosophical - Kevin Hart is the best Australian poet of the past 25 years. --Mark Strand

About the Author:

Kevin Hart was born in 1954 in the village of Ockenden near London, and grew up in London and Brisbane. He has published several books of poetry in Britain, Australia and America, including FLAME TREE: SELECTED POEMS (Bloodaxe Books, 2002) and his latest collection, YOUNG RAIN (Bloodaxe Books, 2009). His award-winning poetry has been translated into several languages, including Chinese. He is also the author of several volumes of literary criticism and theology. He teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 185224545X
• ISBN 13: 9781852245450
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208