In Hide Now, Glyn Maxwell shows how the times have begun to warp time itself: in the poet's vision, the past rears up again with its angry ghosts, the present is racked by its martial and climatic nightmares, and the future has already come and gone. All the stories of the earth seem menaced by just one - to which nations cover their eyes and ears, and from which the grown-ups run and hide. Scheherazade, Robespierre, Dick Cheney and the Reverend Jim Jones all have their place here, though the book's presiding genius is the ...
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In Hide Now, Glyn Maxwell shows how the times have begun to warp time itself: in the poet's vision, the past rears up again with its angry ghosts, the present is racked by its martial and climatic nightmares, and the future has already come and gone. All the stories of the earth seem menaced by just one - to which nations cover their eyes and ears, and from which the grown-ups run and hide. Scheherazade, Robespierre, Dick Cheney and the Reverend Jim Jones all have their place here, though the book's presiding genius is the lonely figure of Cassandra, cursed with knowing the fate of a world that finds her screamingly funny. Glyn Maxwell has established an international reputation as one of the most intelligent and stylishly original English poets since Auden, and he has never written with greater urgency or power. '[Maxwell's] astonishing technical facility can make syllables, vowels and consonants do absolutely anything. His energetic voice riffs through evasively ordinary speech taking on love, politics, comedy and bizarre narratives in brilliantly elaborate syntax and forms' Independent
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Appears to be signed by author Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 200grams, ISBN: 9780330456241.
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New. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 110. 2008. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Good. Reliable and presentable hardcover book. In a full dust jacket. Some shelf wear to the covers. Tight binding! The text flows cleanly and clearly. Enjoy this worthwhile edition.
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Add this copy of Hide Now: Poems (First Edition) to cart. $42.00, like new condition, Sold by Dan Pope Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from WEST Hartford, CT, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publishers original price intact on front flap ($22.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 73 pages. HIDE NOW is a collection of poems written in the years following the events of September 11, marked by meditations on fear, faith, and moral survival. Maxwell, an English poet and playwright, has been shortlisted multiple times for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. This was his eighth poetry collection.
