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The Atlantic Tunnel

By - Farley, Paul
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Faber and Faber, New York, 2010
ISBN 10 - 0865479178
ISBN 13 - 9780865479173
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - English poetry 21st century
Shelf No - 8
Call Number - 821.914 FAR
Physical Description - 143 pages ; 22 cm
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Some similes act like heat shields for re-entry to reality: a tramp in flames on the floor. We can say Flame on!to invoke the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four. We can switch to art and imagine Dali at this latitude doing CCTV surrealism. We could compare him to a protest monk sat up the way he is. --From "Tramp in Flames" With his free-flowing and musical takes on popular and hidden culture, Paul Farley has emerged in the last decade as one of Britain's most imaginative and formally gifted young poets. He engages with the commonplace and the overlooked, the absurd and the catastrophic, the scientific and the mythic, in ways that make us stop and think again about what it is to be living in this world at this particular time. WithThe Atlantic Tunnel, Farley is well on his way to becoming one of the definitive English-language voices of the age.

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