Raptors

• Date de parution : 01/08/2011
• Editeur : Carcanet Press Digital
• EAN : 9781847778550
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• Support : Livre numérique

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• Thème : Non attribué
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With the economy of proverbs and the psychological insight of a novel, Toon Tellegen';s acclaimed sequence Raptors depicts the dynamics of a family held hostage by the mood-swings and histrionics of a father, a figure both comic and terrifying, grotesque and pathetic. Tellegen';s mercurial... Voir plus

With the economy of proverbs and the psychological insight of a novel, Toon Tellegen';s acclaimed sequence Raptors depicts the dynamics of a family held hostage by the mood-swings and histrionics of a father, a figure both comic and terrifying, grotesque and pathetic. Tellegen';s mercurial imagination evokes the dark archetypes of European folklore and reanimates them with a sophisticated sense of the endless fluidity of relationships, the instability of interpretation. An improvisation on a theme, circling back to 'my father'; at the start of each poem, Raptors builds to a story without narrative, its extravagant imaginative leaps into absurdity held within a framework of tender observation. Toon Tellegen';s translator Judith Wilkinson has worked closely with the poet to create English poems that capture the startling clarity and inventiveness of the original Dutch. Raptors has the rewarding intensity of a modern classic.