First Time in Japan

Howell, Anthony (SIGNED)

ISBN 10: 0856462632 / ISBN 13: 9780856462634

Published by Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1995

About this Item

220 x 140mm. pp. 61. English text. Inscribed edition of Anthony Howell's 'First Time in Japan'. Inscription reads 'For Frank with admiration. love Anthony'. This volume is from the library of British poet Frank T. Prince (Soldiers Bathing). Bound in original blue pictorial wraps. Wraps and pages clean and tight.

Seller Inventory # 020582

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Time in Japan
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, London
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856462632
• ISBN 13: 9780856462634
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good +
• Signed: Inscribed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Imagine a character of our time whose affinities are with the Silver Poets of Ancient Rome. A person at the pivot of middle age; cosmopolitan, yet jaundiced - a hedonist with greying temples and expanding belly...

This is the persona whose voice permeates `First Time in Japan', enabling Anthony Howell to speak without calculating the soundness of the view expressed. As always his poems are distilled from irony, wit and an intensity of poetic craft, creating another unsettling fusion of modernism and bravura tradition.

About the Author

Anthony Howell was born in London in April 1945 and was educated at Leighton Park, a Quaker school in Berkshire. By 1966 he was dancing with the Royal Ballet. He left ballet shortly after, however, in order to concentrate on his writing. In 1973 he was a member of the International Writing Program in Iowa. In 1974 he founded The Theatre of Mistakes - a company dedicated to poetic drama - which has performed at the Cambridge Poetry Festival and in art galleries and theatres in Europe and America.