He Dances (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: No. 33 of 225 copies
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Within the spare, luminous pages of He Dances, John Miles crafts a poetry collection that pulses with sensory immediacy and lyrical restraint, drawing the reader into a world where friendship, joy, and the intoxicating rhythms of human connection are rendered in vivid, imagistic verse. The very title poem announces Miles's artistic intent with startling economy: a friend stands, sings, blooms — and in that bloom, an entire universe of shared experience unfolds. The collection inhabits a space between the celebratory and the contemplative, where wine, spring, and laughter become the vocabulary of a deeply felt human philosophy. Miles writes with the precision of a poet who trusts silence as much as sound, allowing white space and carefully chosen imagery to carry emotional weight that more verbose verse could never achieve. His lines move with a dancer's controlled grace — deliberate, rhythmic, and quietly surprising — marking him as a distinctive voice in contemporary poetry. He Dances is a collection that rewards slow, repeated reading, each return uncovering new resonances hidden beneath its seemingly simple surface.
Author: John Miles
Format: Hardback
Published: 1994
Genre: Poetry
Edition: No. 33 of 225 copies
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Within the spare, luminous pages of He Dances, John Miles crafts a poetry collection that pulses with sensory immediacy and lyrical restraint, drawing the reader into a world where friendship, joy, and the intoxicating rhythms of human connection are rendered in vivid, imagistic verse. The very title poem announces Miles's artistic intent with startling economy: a friend stands, sings, blooms — and in that bloom, an entire universe of shared experience unfolds. The collection inhabits a space between the celebratory and the contemplative, where wine, spring, and laughter become the vocabulary of a deeply felt human philosophy. Miles writes with the precision of a poet who trusts silence as much as sound, allowing white space and carefully chosen imagery to carry emotional weight that more verbose verse could never achieve. His lines move with a dancer's controlled grace — deliberate, rhythmic, and quietly surprising — marking him as a distinctive voice in contemporary poetry. He Dances is a collection that rewards slow, repeated reading, each return uncovering new resonances hidden beneath its seemingly simple surface.