Selected Poems

Constantine, David

ISBN 10: 1852241667 / ISBN 13: 9781852241667

Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1991,, 1991

About this Item

paperback, 8vo, 160pp, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, cornmers slightly scuffed, Good condition. ISBN: 1852241667.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1991,
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852241667
• ISBN 13: 9781852241667
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Selection drawn from David Constantine's first three collections, A Brightness to Cast Shadows, Watching for Dolphins and Madder, plus new poems, since replaced by his Collected Poems (2004).

Review

Hölderlin is a poet we can read with our own atrocious times in mind. He is a deeply religious poet whose fundamental tenet is absence and the threat of meaninglessness. He confronted hopelessness as few writers have, he was what Rilke called "exposed"; but there is no poetry like his for the constant engendering of hope, for the expression, in the body and breath of poems, of the best and most passionate aspirations. --David Constantine

Constantine goes for an "equivalence of spirit" in a more familiar idiom. This is at once a bold and humble undertaking, and has produced poetry of a remarkable luminosity and intensity, written in rhythms and cadences which recreate, both in their extremities of grief and their urgent hope, the immediacy of the original. --Karen Leeder, Oxford Poetry