The Space of Joy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780701181109)

Vendor: John Fuller
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Format: Paperback
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The Space of Joy

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The Space of Joy

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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John Fuller contemplates that age-old question of life versus art in this powerful, storytelling sequence of poems. Each work recounts the life of a noted author or artist and their fatal prioritization of art over love. It begins with Petrarch, who created great lyric poetry out of an impossible infatuation, and moves through Coleridge's self-induced guilt within domestic happiness, Matthew Arnold's disbelief in mutual love, Brahm's self-delusion, and the complexities of Wallace Stevens's marriage. Magnificently playful and thought-provoking, these poems present the conviction that while art creates beauty, it is life itself that must create the "space of joy" that art wishes to celebrate.

Author: John Fuller
ISBN-10: 0701181109
ISBN-13: 9780701181109
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.48w x 0.30d
Award: Costa Book Awards - Nominee
By John Fuller
By John Fuller
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John Fuller is one of Britain's more high profile contemporary poets, as well as a novelist and academic. He has written 15 collections of poetry of which the last, Ghosts, was shorlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award for Poetry. He is also the author of Flying to Nowhere, which was shortlisted for the Book Prize, and W.H. Auden: A Commentary.

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