| Breaking News Contributor(s): Carson, Ciaran (Author) |
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ISBN: 1930630115 ISBN-13: 9781930630116 Publisher: Wake Forest University Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: Ciaran Carson won the top poetry prize in Britain for this collection. Breaking News includes dispatches from a war correspondent and verses on the horrors of conflict. Judges said that the poems "record the force of terror and beauty with surgical precision." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 2002117059 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.82" W x 9.62" (0.55 lbs) 59 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Few poets can alter readers orientation as radically as does Ciaran Carson. In Breaking News, this former master of the long line employs two- and three-syllable lines to alter tempo, the time of his narrative, and the distinction between separate wars and eras. The imperial past, which haunts Belfast in its Crimean place-names, its violence, and its scissorblade meeting of different cultures, bleeds into the present. In many of these poems Carson brings into a visual and tactile present of smell and sound and taste radical revisions of paintings, other poems, and bulletins of a war correspondent to accommodate rhyme and rhythm, as he says in his notes, or to post, as Pound says of poetry, the news that stays news. Winner of the 2003 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection." |