Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984 - Softcover

Fenton, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374524068 ISBN 13: 9780374524067

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994

Synopsis

Fenton's work is elegant, highly finished, reticent, witty. Disturbing and deeply affecting, Children in Exile remains an exhilarating and memorable performance.

"Quite simply, Fenton's poems are frightening." - The New York Times Book Review

About this title

About the Author:

James Fenton is a poet and critic. From 1994 to 1999 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. He writes about poetry, art history, and gardening for the New York Review of Books.

Review:

Cambodia
Children In Exile
Chosun
Dead Soldiers
Exempla
Exempla: A. The Pitt-rivers Museum, Oxford
Exempla: B. The Fruit-grower In War-time
Exempla: C. South Parks Road
Exempla: D. A Terminal Moraine
A German Requiem
God, A Poem
In A Notebook
The Killer Snails
The Kingfisher's Boxing Gloves
Letter To John Fuller
Lines For Translation Into Any Language
Lolliipops Of The Pomeranian Baroque
Lullaby For A Summer Recess
Nest Of Vampires
Nothing
Prison Island
The Skip
The Song That Sounds Like This
A Staffordshire Murderer
Tauler
This Octopus Exploits Women
A Vacant Possession
Vucceria
The Wild Ones
Wind
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0374524068
• ISBN 13: 9780374524067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120