Losing the Language: Poems 1966-2006 Including Classical Chinese Poetry Re-interpreted

David Stephens

ISBN 10: 0955648017 / ISBN 13: 9780955648014

Published by WordWorkers' Press, 2007

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Signed, 1st Edition, Hardcover, D/j has very slight shelf wear, o/w v/g, v/g. Including Classical Chinese Poetry Re-Interpreted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Losing the Language: Poems 1966-2006 Including Classical Chinese Poetry Re-interpreted
• Publisher: WordWorkers' Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955648017
• ISBN 13: 9780955648014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry
  • 1st Edition

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Synopsis

A stunning collection of original work, Losing the Language confirms David Stephens as a major poetic talent. His poems, with their clear and distinctive voice, provide a breath of fresh air in the stuffy halls of English contemporary verse.

The range is illuminating; the scope scintillates. Throughout the forty years of poetry collected here, certain underlying ideas, values, tenets hold true. Above all, David Stephens engages and what an engagement! Essentially human, wonderfully diverse, recognisable: his poetry speaks to us directly.

The new interpretations of classical Chinese poetry fit. They are simply integral to the work, and are a model of clarity; a limpid perfection.

"Only connect, as E.M. Forster commented. Experience informs the poems without restricting them, providing a rich hinterland for the poet's achievement: a beautifully clear, shared sense. Dip in, dive out; a work in progress, provocative, profound.

About the Author

David Stephens, youngest son of a militant Welsh ex-coal miner and a Brixton-born merchant sea-woman and laundry worker, was born in South London on D-Day. He left school at 15 and has worked at many jobs in many places: long-distance lorry driver, clerk, labourer, community worker, film researcher, archaeologist and magazine editor among them; he studied media design at Plymouth College of Art and, later, Early Modern History at the University of Wales. These experiences formed and still inform his poetry. He is currently doing historical research for a film and is co-writing the script with Richard Carman.