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Orchid Boat by Lee Harwood (2014, Trade Paperback)

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It is a mix that can include Alexandria or China or Brighton or North Wales. These interwoven stories insist on the acceptance of contradictions and complexity in people and in life; a recognition characteristic of Harwood&;s poetry and shaped by his acknowledged influences: Gide, de Montherlant and Cavafy, John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherEnitharmon Press

ISBN-101907587535

ISBN-139781907587535

eBay Product ID (ePID)202508827

Product Key Features

Book TitleOrchid Boat

Number of Pages45 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Literary

Publication Year2014

GenrePoetry, Fiction

AuthorLee Harwood

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight2.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Harwood's poems are carried across many horizons by his lightness of touch . . . he zooms in and out, from the intimate and immediate to more distantly viewed landscapes and panoramas involving dream, memory, historical incident, all of which freely, and somehow effortlessly, intermingle." --August Kleinzahler, London Review of Books, "By such moves the poetry is almost constantly held to a sense of intimacy, as if forming one half of a private conversation." --Peter Riley, fortnightlyreview.co.uk, "The poems remain open and inviting - they evoke the private thoughts we often suppress, ignore, are ashamed of, or embarrassed by." --John Yau, hyperallergic.com, "A gatherer of fragments, Harwood's writing is a mode of slow accretion, of building blocks of poetry (and prose), and presenting them in relationship with others, to allow them to resonate with one another." --Robert Sheppard, Stride Magazine

Dewey Decimal821.914

Synopsis"The Orchid Boat" is a weave of stories: some personal, some historical, some real, some imaginary. Often these may co-exist in a poem just as they do in one's everyday mind, as a collage mirroring our own perception of the world. It is a mix that can include Alexandria or China or Brighton or North Wales. These interwoven stories insist on the acceptance of contradictions and complexity in people and in life; a recognition characteristic of Harwood s poetry and shaped by his acknowledged influences: Gide, de Montherlant and Cavafy, John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. In Harwood s poems the richest material and tone is found in "the ordinary," and in "The Orchid Boat" this focus is thrown into even greater relief as he explores the power and weight of memories.", The Orchid Boat is a weave of stories: some personal, some historical, some real, some imaginary. Often these may co-exist in a poem just as they do in one's everyday mind, as a collage mirroring our own perception of the world. It is a mix that can include Alexandria or China or Brighton or North Wales. These interwoven stories insist on the acceptance of contradictions and complexity in people and in life; a recognition characteristic of Harwood's poetry and shaped by his acknowledged influences: Gide, de Montherlant and Cavafy, John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. In Harwood's poems the richest material and tone is found in "the ordinary," and in The Orchid Boat this focus is thrown into even greater relief as he explores the power and weight of memories.

LC Classification NumberPR6058.A72