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In Matthew Sweeney's eighth full-length collection the disarming fabulist and mythmaker steps out into fresh territory. These are poems from a mapless journey through the backwaters of Europe and the New World, imbued as always with the strange, unerring logic of dream, but carrying now a new, fugitive, lyrical note. The sanctuary of the title is fragile and hard-won, and the complexities of the emotional life are written into the architecture of the physical, making for a poetry that is both vulnerable and disturbing. Celebrated for his ability to blend the simple terror of folklore with the more sophisticated anxieties of Kafka and the contemporary, Sweeney moves through this book like a revenant—past monkeys dressed as doormen, through ice-hotels and showers of human hair, towards a scaffold or a lover. Obliquely sinister and wryly engaging, full of fright and grim hilarity, these are rootless poems, each unsettled, unsettling, and very far from home.
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The sanctuary of the title is fragile and hard-won, and the complexities of the emotional life are written into the architecture of the physical, making for a poetry that is both vulnerable and disturbing.
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Matthew Sweeney is the author of Selected Poems and the editor of Beyond Bedlam, Emergency Kit, and the New Faber Book of Children’s Verse.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0224073451
- ISBN 13 9780224073455
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
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