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Eric Ormsby

Autore di Ghazali: The Revival of Islam

21+ opere 83 membri 1 recensione

Sull'Autore

Eric Ormsby is Chief Librarian at the Library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.

Opere di Eric Ormsby

The Baboons of Hada (2011) 7 copie
Time's Covenant (2007) 6 copie
Araby (Signal Editions) (2000) 6 copie

Opere correlate

The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Collaboratore — 161 copie
The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age (2002) — Collaboratore — 34 copie
The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy (2011) — Collaboratore — 25 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1941
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA (birth)
Canada
Luogo di nascita
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Luogo di residenza
Montréal, Québec, Canada
London, England, UK

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Poetry may be the artform about which I am fussiest. I dislike a bad novel, but I hate a bad collection of poetry. It’s like listening to an incompetently-performed rock song, versus watching an incompetently-performed ballet. One of those you can clap along to. The other makes you wish you’d spent your money on grain alcohol and an all-night bus ticket around the M25.

Ormsby’s collection was the best I read in 2017 (excerpts here). Collecting 30 years of poetry from the Canadian, The Baboons of Hada ticks all my boxes: it is historically and geographically anchored; with dense, earthy and visally-potent language; and it is chock-a-block full of funny animals.… (altro)
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sometimeunderwater | Feb 19, 2018 |

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21
Opere correlate
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Utenti
83
Popolarità
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Voto
4.0
Recensioni
1
ISBN
24
Lingue
1

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