Toy Fights - Don Paterson

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Résumé :

Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of an infinite sensitivity to the world (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent youth. An indifferent student prone to obsessions (with girls at school and . . . origami), Paterson nevertheless made clear early on his immense gift for observation. In Toy Fights, he vividly re-creates the customs of the Scottish working class, from the titular childhood game (basically twenty minutes of extreme violence without pretext) to the virtues of the sugary sweet known as tablet. When American pop culture arrived, Paterson fell hard for the so-called outlaw sound...

Biographie:
Don Paterson was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009, and is the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize on two occasions. He also works as a jazz musician. He lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland....

Sommaire:
by his teens, he was traveling with his father, a Stetson-wearing country musician, and becoming guitar-mad himself. A memoir of family, music, and highly inventive profanity, Toy Fights is an unforgettable account of the years we all spend in rehearsal for real life.