Poetry > The Italian Visitor
Poetry Gowrie, G: The Italian Visitor
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- ISBN: 9781847772329
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From the opening poem, an extended elegy for the Cold War's ambivalent mix of irresponsibility and prosperity, to a concluding short memoir of Robert Lowell, The Italian Visitor is a book about memory. The title sequence, an account of a 1940s' childhood, unravels time by placing Grey Gowrie's eight-year-old self in fictional relationship with another poetic hero, Eugenio Montale. The Italian visited 'bankrupt, utilitarian' Britain in 1948, in his early fifties.
There are love songs from the Portuguese, a ballad about the birth of Israel and elegiac poems for those districts of London now occupied mainly by overseas tycoons. Gowrie has also included a selection of the occasional verses he wrote in the years when poetry left him.
Series | Poetry | Title | The Italian Visitor |
---|---|---|---|
Subject | Italian | Language | English |
Market | Adolescent/Adult | Level | Fluent/native speakers |
Publication Date | May 2013 | Authors | Grey Gowrie |
Binding | Paperback | Pages | 80 |
Size(mm) | N/A | Weight (gms) | 150 |
ESB Code | 55700 | ISBN | 9781847772329 |
Inspection Copy | No | Delivery | Limited Stock |
Price | £9.95 |
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