Selected Poems

Constantine, David

ISBN 10: 1852241667 / ISBN 13: 9781852241667

Published by Bloodaxe Books, 1991

About this Item

Signed inscription from the author on the front end paper owners name and address label on the front end paper some light wear to the edges of the wrappers 160 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852241667
• ISBN 13: 9781852241667
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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