Jack R Clemo (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Review Copy. Fine paperback copy; somewhat dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 160 pages ; 22 cm. ISBN; 9781852240523. Notes; Poetry Book Society recommendation. Subjects; Clemo, Jack. 1916-1994. English poetry. 20th century. Cornwall (England). Poetry. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 63 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Clemo, Jack R. (1916-1994) Approach to Murano. English poetry 20th century. 3 Kg.

Review Copy. Fine paperback copy; somewhat dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 160 pages ; 22 cm. ISBN; 9781852240523. Notes; Poetry Book Society recommendation. Subjects; Clemo, Jack. 1916-1994. English poetry. 20th century. Cornwall (England). Poetry. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 63 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Clemo, Jack R. (1916-1994) Approach to Murano. English poetry 20th century. 1 Kg.

As a young man, Jack Clemo lived in poverty amidst the bleak clay wastelands of Cornwall. He was also stone deaf, and after writing two visionary novels and his autobiographical Confession of a Rebel, he lost his sight in 1955. His Selected Poems (1988) and Approach to Murano (1993) show the development of his poetry from a puritanical anti-nature stance to a later, mellower outlook. The Cured Arno was his last collection, which he had only just completed at the time of his death in 1994.Jack Clemo wrote: 'My Italian visits gave me a symbol that illuminated even those poems which have no connection with Italy. The cured Arno may represent the cured ego, and sometimes I only showed the situation that needed cure. Dante knew his river only in its sick state. It was later "cured" of its erratic and treacherous behaviour, its destructive winter ?oods and the stench of its dry mud bed in summer. The river image was apt for my purpose, whether I wrote about the Titanic disaster, which cured an earlier generation of its blind trust in mechanical power as the key to a safe world, or about my later marriage which cured my warped and bleak isolationism.'.

20x13. 246 pags. 1ª ED. Tela ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very attractive illustrated pale blue dust-jacket, not price-clipped, a little wrinkle at top edge but clean and bright having been kept in a clear protective sleeve. Book bound in dark pink cloth with title in blue on the spine, clean bright and square. Hinge firm, no inscriptions, one or two little brown spots to the end papers plus scattering to the closed page edges. Pages smooth and clean, appearing unused.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.143; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of six shillings net to upper. Edges toned, top edge a little dusty. Dust-jacket slightly bruised and rubbed to edges. Very good. A Miscellany.