The Drift EPUB
by Alan Jenkins
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ALAN JENKINS - POERTY IS EXHILARATING. . . . . IT IS CHARGED WITH EROTIC ENERGY, RAGE, SORROW AND CONFUSION. - DAVID LEHMAN The poeoms in Alan Jenkin's magnificent new collection are closely linked, forming a movingly autobiographical book which deals with the disjunction between the aspirations of youth and the realities of middle-age.
The narrator looks back on his twenties, full of the grand ambition to be the next Rimbaud, and wryly contrasts it with his current situation: friends dead, women lost, opportunities missed.
Images of drifting, of the random patterns that fate imposes on existence, weave their way through poems full of sea-scapes and sailing boats.
Ghosts loom through the mist; objects imbued with memory accumulate like driftwood.
But although Alan Jenkins writes about a sense of loss and failure -his rich poetry formally dextrous and inventive, witty and subtle in its allusions - acts as a counterbalance, showing how the twisting of an emotion into shape can salvage feelings of pointlessness.
Through his personal experience, he explores themes that will resonate with a broad audience: the difference between men and women.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:64 pages
- Publisher:Random House
- Publication Date:30/11/2011
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- ISBN:9781448114047
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:64 pages
- Publisher:Random House
- Publication Date:30/11/2011
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- ISBN:9781448114047