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Language: English
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester, 2009
- Softcover
- New

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Paperback. "Smoke and Lilacs" is full of play and shadow, whispered intimations of mortality and glances of humour, elegiac lyric playing against steely classicism, an easy modern vernacular eliding with timeless grace. Sibum's meditative narratives move between worlds, modern and ancient, the state of our civic order and the realm of love. Human love and lust exist within the forces of empire - Rome or America. Men and women continue to ask of life 'from what god does it come, 'To what serendipity does it go' if chance is all and all there's been?', and the gods 'laugh at those who laugh at chance'. Across centuries, voices create a complex music from their moments on earth, the echoes of their 'gossip in the rain's cold light'. Presents intimations of mortality and glances of humour, elegiac lyric playing against steely classicism, an easy modern vernacular eliding with timeless grace. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Smoke and Lilacs (Paperback)
- Author
- Norm Sibum
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1857549368
- ISBN 13
- 9781857549362
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