Happiness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781742586861)

Martin Harrison (1949-2014) prepared and delivered this final manuscript at the end of a prolific creative life. With the vulnerability of a lover, the poet peels back one cover of truth after another; reckless for the evidence of the senses, he sifts light, sound, and smell. Poems like the skin of a world: breathing, walking, touching. Martin Harrison's culminating poetic achievement is a crossing over - stylistically, thematically, emotionally. Mapping the tragic chiasmus of love and death, it finally asserts the transcendent power of poetry to bear witness, to join us in a greater communion. Cosmopolitan and local, these triumphs of a 'late style' remind us what poetry is when its mastery allows the irony of existence to walk naked and to exult. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO [Subject: Poetry]

Author: Martin Harrison
ISBN-10: 1742586864
ISBN-13: 9781742586861
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2015
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.27d