All Just - Herd, David

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Résumé :
The poems in this collection are created from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement and the translation between public and private spaces--conversations that start and are broken off; public announcements intervening in private situations; an emergency that is about to unfold in the background. Taking bearings from Dover and London and wrestling with themes of elegy and protest, official structures that determine where people can go, and the futures that cross them, the poems explore the social spaces in which people move. The book asks what it means to be at large in the world and what language is available to document the journey.

Biographie:
David Herd is a poet, a critic, and a teacher. He is a lecturer at the University of Kent and the author of Mandleson! Mandleson! A Memoir. His recent essays on poetry and politics have appeared in publications such as Almost Island, Parallax, and PN Review.

Sommaire:
3 a.m. Sans papiers To the historians - a letter Outwith On not being a man who is Piero della Francesca On not being a man who is Piero (out set) And Piero, a further word Song of the road Poem beginning with a phrase from Whitman Song of the cigarette For a friend, after a translation 3 notes towards a love song Fact Song of the mobile 3 poems becoming elegy You among Ecology Ecology (out set) Bric-a-brac Where things stand One by one Song of the sea Song of the passing truck Simon's bag Objective song Some woman pressed Some woman pressed (out set) To a friend, after a word by Charles Olson The hearing Song of the ultimatum Somehow it seems Song of the stewards Show and tell Song of the breath We do this, we do that Some details maybe A footnote to the American constitution Deportment Song of the cart They offered me a television. I offered them a phone. Some might call it shopping Four poems by way of document Letter to the Corinthians Fugue Document Acknowledgements