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Serpentine Futures [RARE]
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Lewis Packer
Format: Hardback
Remarks on Condition : Condition - General, Very Good, Dust Jacket: good with some shelf wear, In good condition
"The sequence of Oswiecim strives to avoid the shortcomings of poems on related issues by Arendt, Celan, Hecht and Quasimodo. In doing so it achieves shortcomings of its own, since concentration camp facts always downwardly transcend creative values. It is probably impossible to write a successful poem about the holocaust, or any other apocalypse for that matter. One tries to fail as honourably as one can." Serpentine Futures is a poetry book of great power and distinction. Packer's poetry never gives in to the temptation of relying on its subject for power. His obsessions create their own language and their own poetic method. This collection includes a narrative poem for voices, "The Great Food Animal'' , which describes through Aboriginal eyes and in simple, active English the invasion of Australia by whites. The group of Auschwitz poems combines historical and personal fact. For Packer, the horror of the concentration camps marks the end of one kind of civilization; one kind of language; even one kind of poetry. It was published by University of Queensland Press in 1986 and has 63 pages.
Author: Lewis Packer
Format: Hardback
Remarks on Condition : Condition - General, Very Good, Dust Jacket: good with some shelf wear, In good condition
"The sequence of Oswiecim strives to avoid the shortcomings of poems on related issues by Arendt, Celan, Hecht and Quasimodo. In doing so it achieves shortcomings of its own, since concentration camp facts always downwardly transcend creative values. It is probably impossible to write a successful poem about the holocaust, or any other apocalypse for that matter. One tries to fail as honourably as one can." Serpentine Futures is a poetry book of great power and distinction. Packer's poetry never gives in to the temptation of relying on its subject for power. His obsessions create their own language and their own poetic method. This collection includes a narrative poem for voices, "The Great Food Animal'' , which describes through Aboriginal eyes and in simple, active English the invasion of Australia by whites. The group of Auschwitz poems combines historical and personal fact. For Packer, the horror of the concentration camps marks the end of one kind of civilization; one kind of language; even one kind of poetry. It was published by University of Queensland Press in 1986 and has 63 pages.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Lewis Packer
Format: Hardback
Remarks on Condition : Condition - General, Very Good, Dust Jacket: good with some shelf wear, In good condition
"The sequence of Oswiecim strives to avoid the shortcomings of poems on related issues by Arendt, Celan, Hecht and Quasimodo. In doing so it achieves shortcomings of its own, since concentration camp facts always downwardly transcend creative values. It is probably impossible to write a successful poem about the holocaust, or any other apocalypse for that matter. One tries to fail as honourably as one can." Serpentine Futures is a poetry book of great power and distinction. Packer's poetry never gives in to the temptation of relying on its subject for power. His obsessions create their own language and their own poetic method. This collection includes a narrative poem for voices, "The Great Food Animal'' , which describes through Aboriginal eyes and in simple, active English the invasion of Australia by whites. The group of Auschwitz poems combines historical and personal fact. For Packer, the horror of the concentration camps marks the end of one kind of civilization; one kind of language; even one kind of poetry. It was published by University of Queensland Press in 1986 and has 63 pages.
Author: Lewis Packer
Format: Hardback
Remarks on Condition : Condition - General, Very Good, Dust Jacket: good with some shelf wear, In good condition
"The sequence of Oswiecim strives to avoid the shortcomings of poems on related issues by Arendt, Celan, Hecht and Quasimodo. In doing so it achieves shortcomings of its own, since concentration camp facts always downwardly transcend creative values. It is probably impossible to write a successful poem about the holocaust, or any other apocalypse for that matter. One tries to fail as honourably as one can." Serpentine Futures is a poetry book of great power and distinction. Packer's poetry never gives in to the temptation of relying on its subject for power. His obsessions create their own language and their own poetic method. This collection includes a narrative poem for voices, "The Great Food Animal'' , which describes through Aboriginal eyes and in simple, active English the invasion of Australia by whites. The group of Auschwitz poems combines historical and personal fact. For Packer, the horror of the concentration camps marks the end of one kind of civilization; one kind of language; even one kind of poetry. It was published by University of Queensland Press in 1986 and has 63 pages.
Serpentine Futures [RARE]
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