The Italian Visitor [electronic resource]
Grey Gowrie2013
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From the opening poem, an extended elegy for the Cold War's ambivalent mix of
irresponsibility and prosperity, to a concluding short memoir of Robert Lowell,
The Italian Visitor is a book about memory. The title sequence, an account of a
1940s' childhood, unravels time by placing Grey Gowrie's eight-year-old self in
fictional relationship with another poetic hero, Eugenio Montale. The Italian
visited bankrupt, utilitarian Britain in 1948, in his early fifties. There are
love songs from the Portuguese, a ballad about the birth of Israel and elegiac
poems for those districts of London now occupied mainly by overseas tycoons.
Gowrie has also included a selection of the occasional verses he wrote in the
years when poetry left him.
Main title:
The Italian Visitor [electronic resource] / Grey Gowrie
Author:
Grey Gowrie, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Poetry, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (77 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781847777775
Language:
English
BRN:
437757
Electronic access:
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |