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The poet-author of Besieged explores the themes of exile, belonging, and the human relationship with the natural world in a collection of poetry inspired by the author's own life in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
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James Lasdun is the author of, most recently, the short fiction collection Besieged. He lives in Woodstock, New York.
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Raised and educated in England, Lasdun now makes his home in New York's Catskill Mountains, whence his poems, short stories and novels now issue. These witty, personal poems and sequences consider the poet's move from Britain to America and meditate on his family's new surroundings. Lasdun shows, however, an Englishman's distrustful amusement at American self-confidence, and at masculine violence "Returning the Gift" is the best, and the longest, of several poems about the titular chainsaw and the talkative local who sells them. Other poems remember prep-school hippies and English pubs; contemplate Lasdun's Anglo-Jewish heritage; or evoke the neat brambles of nearby forests. His best poems combine those virtues with his considerable gift for short, crackling narrative the quick plot of "Property: The Bear" withstands comparison to its Frostian models. But readers will find the inoculating irony of some of Lasdun's Frederick Seidel-like quips insufficient: "The locals,/ Esopus Algonquins,/ having already been massacred,/ there's no-one with greater claims to an acre// than you have." Lasdun (Woman Police Officer in Elevator) delights in turning a deft stanza, or in bringing highbrow allusions (Heidegger, say) down to homely earth; he can also reveal a self-deprecating wit reminiscent of Merrill. With their Audenesque epigrams, fluent stanzas and English background, the works gathered here will certainly make Anglophile readers perk up their ears, but beyond the dressings, these are really just more autobiographical poems from a literate, white, middle-aged, male speaker. (July) Forecast: Lasdun's reputation in Britain rests on two previous books of poems, on his prose fiction, and on the well-known anthology After Ovid, which he coedited with Michael Hofmann. Any sales here will have to be driven by the fiction, which has yet to find a significant audience here.
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0393019632
- ISBN 13 9780393019636
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages80
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. As New. Minor rubs to cover. IN PRINT AT $22.This is an exuberant and bold series of poems from the author of Besieged, drawing on the Anglo-Jewish poet's transplanted life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. In the chainsaw--the book's central image--all manner of human traits are reflected with an intense, often comical brilliance. "Who visited Eden after Adam and Eve had left? And did he recognize its overgrown acres as the first paradise? James Lasdun with his chainsaw--the English city boy transplanted to America's suburban wilderness--may be the man. In any case, he's written a thrilling book. It would be hard to name a poet since Robert Lowell who has so tellingly mined the language's grit and glory."--J.D.McClatchy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # N4129
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