The Burning (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844719518)

'The lyric poem works both to slow down our world, teasing out the many disparate elements of our experience, and to reorient it, by exposing an entire universe of instincts, paradoxes, and mysteries beneath all that we know, or think we know. In these poems by Anna Selby, human beings are always gravitating from earth and air towards water. It is as if the transcendence they seek (the desire to "leap/hot out of your own life") requires a physical departure from the very medium they inhabit. Selby's ringing titles evoke not just a subject but a sensibility, and her versatile forms and deftly run-on lines very persuasively re-enact the thrill of sense experience and the shape of thought.' Chandrahas Choudhury

Author: Anna Selby
ISBN-10: 1844719510
ISBN-13: 9781844719518
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2013
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.09lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.07d