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Outside (Salt Modern Poets S.) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for OutsideTaking the most basic of categories - day and night, inside and outside, this title provides a source of meditations on the strangeness of our diurnal lives.
Full description- Publisher: Salt Publishing
- Published: 26 November 2011
- Format: Paperback 84 pages
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- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9781844717590 ISBN 10: 1844717593
- Sales rank: 318,766
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Full description for Outside
"Outside" is the second full-length collection from the prize-winning poet David McCooey. "Outside" takes the most basic of categories-day and night, inside and outside-and makes them the source of powerful meditations on the strangeness of our diurnal lives. In the resonant landscapes of these poems, the domestic slides into the universal, the personal becomes the historical, and the cultural is the real. This is a deeply unified work, even as it encompasses reflections on such diverse topics as the number 5, hands, newborn infants, heaven, anger, and rock music. The collection also features a number of major sequences, including 'A Short History of Night', and an electrifying response to the films of Stanley Kubrick. The book is also finely balanced in another way: by a generous and unique sense of humour, demonstrated in the dadaist and hilarious 'intermission'. "Outside" is always unsettling, but it is, too, always humane.
