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9780224098076 English 0224098071 In his seventh full-length collection of poems, Robert Burns scholar Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence Robert Crawford writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with "Testament," a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human., In his seventh full-length collection of poems, Robert Burns scholar Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence Robert Crawford writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with "Testament," a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human., On the brink of the referendum, the first collection in six years from this major Scottish poet. To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh full-length collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence he writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with 'Testament', a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows in "Testament" how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human., To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh full-length collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence he writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with 'Testament', a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows in Testament how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human.
9780224098076 English 0224098071 In his seventh full-length collection of poems, Robert Burns scholar Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence Robert Crawford writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with "Testament," a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human., In his seventh full-length collection of poems, Robert Burns scholar Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence Robert Crawford writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with "Testament," a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human., On the brink of the referendum, the first collection in six years from this major Scottish poet. To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh full-length collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence he writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with 'Testament', a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows in "Testament" how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human., To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh full-length collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence he writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with 'Testament', a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows in Testament how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human.