Tenderness

Tim Dooley

ISBN 10: 1902382641 / ISBN 13: 9781902382647

Published by Smith/Doorstop Bks., 2007

revised edition edition. 32 pages. 7.01x4.49x0.39 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __1902382641

Synopsis:

This book was a first stage winner in The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition.

It was selected as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice.

From the Publisher: Tenderness, by Tim Dooley: a pamphlet bulging with as much charge and scope as most full collections. In Dooley’s hands, a dull convention becomes an apiary where "passion can harden/ to a dark and sticky/ concentration of cells". A conker exposes its "coffin-shaded fruit". Issues of tribalism and social manipulation are played out through the delight-with-violence gladiatorialism of a rugger match. Yet Dooley’s sum exceeds his image-making parts. Exploiting the lightly-clad pamphlet’s ability to flit beneath our radar he targets, from unexpected angles, such ‘big’ themes as historicity and 9-11. Suffused with humane politics, Tenderness enacts its title in the way it moves through both popular and literary motifs (vinyl discs, Narcissus) to close-stitch its fabric with subtle effects. Amalgamating poise and intellect with a thoughtful pacing of each poem’s release, Dooley injects his words into their precision mouldings with a characteristically delicate and perceptive pressure.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tenderness
Publisher: Smith/Doorstop Bks.
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New