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In Sarah Maguire’s newest collection, her rich and lyrical poems travel greater distances than ever before. The title poem laments the devastation visited upon Afghanistan following decades of war. Others consider the casualties of political unrest: would-be migrants in Tangiers gazing northwards at the longed-for phantasmagoria of "Europe," and packs of wolves on the loose in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. There are intimate moments as well, as in "Landscape, with Dead Sea" where the erosion of the poet’s skin is connected to geological transformations at the earth’s core. This is a moving and powerful collection of work.
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Sarah Maguire is the founder and director of the Poetry Translation Center at the University of London and cotranslated Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi's A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear. She has published three previous collections of poetry, The Florist’s at Midnight, The Invisible Mender, and Spilt Milk, as well as the anthology Flora Poetica.
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"Her poems are both voluptuous and concise, maintaining a perfect balance between scientifically exact observation and a world of marvels." —Daily Telegraph
"There is so much to love in the wonderful poetry of Sarah Maguire." —Carol Shields, author, Unless
"[Maguire] writes dark, erotic, complex and lyrical poems which are so richly layered you can almost taste them." —Maura Dooley, author, Sound Barrier
"There is so much to love in the wonderful poetry of Sarah Maguire." —Carol Shields, author, Unless
"[Maguire] writes dark, erotic, complex and lyrical poems which are so richly layered you can almost taste them." —Maura Dooley, author, Sound Barrier
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2008
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- ISBN 13 9780701181314
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