EMERITUS

COX, Brian.

ISBN 10: 1857545443 / ISBN 13: 9781857545449

Published by Carcenet, Manchester, 2001

About this Item

First Edition. Wraps. Slim 8vo.pp.55. Poetry. ISBN:1857545443. Signed presentation from the author:"For Alan, we're still alive !! Brian Feb., 2004.' Loosely inserted good typed, signed letter from the author, describing his editorial work and the demise of his peers. Original publisher's wraps in glossy white with black lettering and design by Stephen Raw featuring a stained glass window. Very good indeed.

Seller Inventory # C96262

Bibliographic Details

• Title: EMERITUS
• Publisher: Carcenet, Manchester
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857545443
• ISBN 13: 9781857545449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signedes
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Written with a fresh and liberated perspective, this collection of poems is dedicated to writers and artists Cox admires: Saul Bellow, Anton Chekhov, Vincent Van Gogh, and Walter Benjamin. Particularly influenced by the intoxicating presence of the physical world, this work explores all the senses and what one critic called “anticipatory elegy,” the accepted knowledge of change and loss. While acknowledging the inevitable change and decay in life, his poems maintain a freshness of a writer set free in a world that before constrained him.

About the Author

Brian Cox is a retired professor of English literature at Manchester University. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Cox on Cox and the coeditor of the controversial Black Papers on Education. He is the founder and editor of Critical Quarterly. He lives in Manchester, England.