The Atlantic Tunnel: Selected Poems (First Edition)

Paul Farley

ISBN 10: 0865479178 / ISBN 13: 9780865479173

Published by Faber & Faber (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York, 2010

About this Item

First printing, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($25.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very light wear to extremities of an otherwise very fine, as-new jacket. Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut.

Seller Inventory # McClatchy-369

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Atlantic Tunnel: Selected Poems (First Edition)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865479178
• ISBN 13: 9780865479173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Some similes act like heat shields for re-entry
to reality: a tramp in flames on the floor.
We can say Flame on! to invoke the Human Torch
from the Fantastic Four. We can switch to art
and imagine Dali at this latitude
doing CCTV surrealism.
We could compare him to a protest monk
sat up the way he is.
―From "Tramp in Flames"

With his free-flowing and musical takes on popular and hidden culture, Paul Farley has emerged in the last decade as one of Britain's most imaginative and formally gifted young poets. He engages with the commonplace and the overlooked, the absurd and the catastrophic, the scientific and the mythic, in ways that make us stop and think again about what it is to be living in this world at this particular time.

With The Atlantic Tunnel, Farley is well on his way to becoming one of the definitive English-language voices of the age.

About the Author

PAUL FARLEY is the author of three award-winning collections of poetry: The Boy from the Chemist Is Here to See You, The Ice Age, and Tramp in Flames. He lives in North Lancashire, England.