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Empty Air: New Poems 2006-2012 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780856464539)
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xTony Connor's tenth collection is framed by military encounters. In the first poem a young man grapples with a malfunctioning machine-gun, while the author grapples with the poem he is making from this event, memory or fantasy. In the surrealistic sequence that ends the book, a strange army invades a country collapsing into societal and semantic dissolution.
Connor's abiding preoccupations continue into his eighties: his own life and the lives around him, passing time and its traps, poetry and its transfiguration of the commonplace. Yet all is not solemn as Connor extends his range into comic verse and dramatic dialogue. His new poems mix fantasy and reality in unexpected ways, always with the unobtrusive hand of a skilled craftsman.
Author: Tony Connor
ISBN-10: 0856464538
ISBN-13: 9780856464539
Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2013
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
By Tony Connor
xTony Connor was born in 1930. He left school at fourteen and worked as a textile designer in Manchester for many years. Since 1971 he has lived mainly in Middletown, Connecticut where he was a professor of English at Wesleyan University. His plays have been performed on both sides of the Atlantic. He now divides his time between Middletown and London.
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