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Miming happiness
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- Book Synopsis
- "Allison McVety's follow up to 2007's The Night Trotsky Came to Stay is a paean to the everyday." - Poetry Book Society"Miming Happiness's final section is collected into almost magical intensity. McVety's long lines describe her sister's mysterious illness, with lovely glances of sound, and the energy of verbs: 'on she swims, a shiver/ a shine, surfacing for air; slip-streaming the light'. Closing rhythms pulse with a town's life: 'the factories [..] breathe out, breathe in, go on'. McVety, the poet of solid things, reveals the wish 'to crumble away' into the 'infinitely small'. Her final poem is a vision of inwardness: 'the atom/ cracking with the thunder of a goldcrest's heart'. It is an astounding line. The best of Allison McVety's collection reveals the uncontainable power of poetry.' - Alison Brackenbury, PN Review
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781906613143
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- smith|doorstop Books, (13 May 2010)
- Number of Pages
- 57
- Weight
- 97 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 139 x 9 mm
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