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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Poetry of Sexdi Sophie Hannah
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 Hannah hopes her collection will be the raunchiest poetry anthology of the year, a humble enough aim to be sure. In fact it is far less raunchy than the average collection of rugby songs
The Poetry of Sex - a raucous, highly enjoyable anthology by acclaimed poet Sophie Hannah We've been at it all summer, from the Canadian border to the edge of Mexico . . . Romance and poetry seem to go hand in hand but - implicit, explicit, nuanced or starkly frank - sex itself has long been a staple subject for poets. In fact a great deal of erotic poetry rejects the distinction. It's hard to imagine a more fruitful subject for poets than sex, in all its glorious manifestations: from desire and hope, through disappointment and confusion, to conclusion and consequence. And little has changed over the centuries, as Sophie Hannah's anthology vividly demonstrates, from Catullus pleading with Lesbos to Walt Whitman singing the body electric. Moods and attitudes may vary but the drive persists as does the desire to write about it. Sophie Hannah's selection ranges from ancient Rome to modern New York, from gay to straight, but her principle has been to go low on the sugar and high on the excitement. The result is a raucous, highly enjoyable anthology. From Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, this book is essential reading for poetry lovers and romantics everywhere. It is a perfect counterpart to the The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry and a wonderful companion to Sophie Hannah's own Selected Poems. 'Sophie Hannah is among the best at comprehending in rhyming verse the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart' Guardian 'A shrewd and accurate observer of the world around her, and of her own life, she is often very funny' The Oldie 'The brightest young star in British poetry' Independent Sophie Hannah has published five collections of poetry. Her fifth Pessimism for Beginners was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award in 2007. Her Selected Poems is published by Penguin (revised edition, 2013). She is also the writer of bestselling psychological crime fiction, most recently The Carrier. Her novels have been translated into 24 languages. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Cambridge with her husband and children, and is a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)821.00803538Literature English English poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions Collections of literary texts not limited by time period or kind of form Collections of literary texts displaying specific features or emphasizing specific subjects, for or by specific groups of people Poetry dealing with specific themes and subjects Humanity Human characteristics and activities SexClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.25)
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The great thing about this anthology is that the poems aren't arranged by period, act, or permutation of genders involved, but grouped together by arbitrary and occasionally slightly mischievous decisions about similarity of mood and subject, which makes for some very odd juxtapositions (like the two "Daniel Craig" poems...).
Lots of the usual suspects (Andrew Marvell, D.H. Lawrence, Cavafy, Walt Whitman, etc.), but also a great deal I haven't seen before. I think I'm going to be going around with the refrain of John Whitworth's "Love & sex & boys in showers" in my mind for quite some time.
Auden's "The Platonic blow" is one I'd never read before, for some reason - delightful to see one of the greatest poets of the century writing unashamed second-rate porn, making no concessions to literary quality whatever. Every cliché in the book - except that you don't often see second-rate porn in an ABAB rhyme scheme...
Probably the sort of book it's worth putting aside a few copies of to give as frivolous presents.
Edit: After writing this, I saw Germaine Greer's very negative review in the New Statesman (linked on the work page). I agree about some of the dubious choices (the two Spanish mystical poems that are included in the original, for no clear reason, and the very loose Catullus translation) - but what would be the point of an anthology that contained exactly the selection you expect it to? I think she misses the point a little, too: it's not that the poems are about sex that qualifies them for inclusion, but that we are able to read them as being about sex when we see them in this context. A dirty mind is a joy forever. Including the Frost poem is a kind of joke, but seeing it here it also makes us read it in an interesting new way. (Of course, it's also part of Germaine Greer's raison d'être to say things she expects most readers to disagree with...) (