Nefertiti in the Flak Tower: Poems

Nefertiti in the Flak Tower: Poems

â€œClive James is more or less the only living poet who manages to be both entertaining and moving.â€â€•Edward Mendelson
Clive Jamesâ€™s renown as an internationally celebrated poet continues to expand, and there is no stronger evidence for this than Nefertiti in the Flak Tower, a collection â€œsteeped in the lessons of Philip Larkin and W.B. Yeatsâ€ (London Times). Here, his polymathic learning and technical virtuosity are worn more lightly than ever; the effect is to produce a deep sense of trust into which the reader gratefully sinks, knowing they are in the presence of a master. The most obvious token of that mastery is the bookâ€™s breathtaking range of theme: there are moving elegies, a meditation on the later Yeats, a Hollywood Iliad, and odes to rare orchids, wartime typewriters, and sharksâ€•as well as a poem on the fate of Queen Nefertiti in Nazi Germany.
Despite the dizzying variety, Jamesâ€™s poetic intention becomes increasingly clear: what marks this new collection is his intensified concentration on the individual poem as a self-contained universe. Poetry is a practice he compares (in â€œNumismaticsâ€) to striking new coin, and Nefertiti in the Flak Tower is a treasure chest of one-off marvels, with each poem a twin-sided, perfect human balance of the unashamedly joyous and the deadly serious, â€œwhose play of light pays tribute to the dark.â€
Country USA
Brand LIVERIGHT
Manufacturer Liveright
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780871407115
ReleaseDate 2013-10-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780871407115

Country	USA
Brand	LIVERIGHT
Manufacturer	Liveright
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780871407115
ReleaseDate	2013-10-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780871407115

Nefertiti in the Flak Tower: Poems

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