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My Father's Trapdoor

My Father's Trapdoor

by PeterRedgrove (Author)

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    Paperback 1994

    $5.72
Synopsis

The mysterious complicity that exists between the living and the dead is the subject of this book, in which Peter Redgrove winds inner and outer worlds closer and closer together. In a number of moving autobiographical poems, he both recalls and re-imagines his late parents. He speaks of and to those who know, in the words of Robert Duncan, 'the god-step at the margins of thought'. These new poems explore the vast potential of our life now and the possible varieties of an afterlife. Peter Redgrove is working the rich seam of his maturity. The freshness and vigor of his inspiration continues unabated. Whether in poems about violins, waxworks, frozen champagne or the Waterworks at Staines, he is always extending his immensely versatile repertoire. With its ardent precision, confirming sensuality and ironic cordiality his voice is indeed that of a Visionary Emeritus.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 64
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 21 Apr 1994
ISBN 10: 0224038966
ISBN 13: 9780224038966
Book Overview: This final volume of poems written by the late Peter Redgrove is a profound meditation on the relationship between the living and the dead by one of the great British poets of our time.

Media Reviews
Redgrove's language can light up the page -- Angela Carter
Regrove is thunderously, exhilaratingly good... If you need a remedy for our shabby, thin-souled, cash-tilled British times, I can think of no better -- Adam Thorpe
Redgrove is tremendously gifted... his exuberance is a form of artistry in itself -- Douglas Dunn
Peter Redgrove is really an extraordinary poet -- George Szirtes
Author Bio
Peter Redgrove was born in 1932. Apart from producing over thirty full-length collections of poetry he also wrote novels, plays and non-fiction - including The Wise Wound with Penelope Shuttle. Among the many awards he has received are the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Prix Italia and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry; and his collection In the Hall of the Saurians was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. He received an honorary degree from the University of Sheffield, which holds an archive of the poet's papers. He died in 2003. A posthumous collection, The Harper, was published in 2006.