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Learning to Sleep - John Burnside

Learning to Sleep

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Buch | Softcover
80 Seiten
2021
Jonathan Cape Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78733-234-8 (ISBN)
CHF 19,90 inkl. MwSt
Lucid, lyrical, and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness.

Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, from the author's mother, commemorated in an exquisitely charged variant on the pastoral elegy, to the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who wanders an implausible Lincolnshire landscape looking for some sign of belonging. Throughout the book, the powers and dominions of a lost pagan ancestry emerge unexpectedly through the gaps in contemporary life: half-seen and fleeting, but profoundly present. Behind it all, the figure of Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, marks Burnside's own attempts to come to terms with the severe sleep disorder from which he has suffered for years, a condition that culminated in the recent near-death experience that informs the latter part of the book.

Add to this a series of provocative meditations on the ways in which we are all harmed by institutions, from organised religion, or marriage, to the tawdry concepts of gender and romantic love that subtly govern our personal lives, and Learning to Sleep reveals Burnside at his most elegiac, while still retaining a radical pagan's sense of celebration and cultural independence.

‘I read it over and over again, marvelling at its concision and beauty.' Cressida Connolly, Spectator

** A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021**

John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2024, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 133 x 197 mm
Gewicht 119 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-78733-234-9 / 1787332349
ISBN-13 978-1-78733-234-8 / 9781787332348
Zustand Neuware
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