The River in the Sky – A Poem

The River in the Sky – A Poem

by Clive James (Author), Clive James (Author)

Synopsis

Few people read Poetry any more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time, writes Clive James in his epic poem, The River in the Sky. What emerges from this lamentation is a soaring epic of exceptional depth and overwhelming feeling, all the more extraordinary given its appearance in an age when the heroic poem seems to have disappeared from contemporary literature.

Among James's many talents is his uncanny ability to juxtapose references to early twentieth-century poets with offbeat humor and flyaway cultural observations (Dwight Garner, New York Times), or allusions to the adagio of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony contrasted with references to YouTube's vast cosmopolis. Whether recalling his Australian childhood or his father's clean white headstone in a Hong Kong cemetery, James's autobiographical epic ultimately helps us define the meaning of life.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Edition: 1
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 06 Dec 2018

ISBN 10: 1631494732
ISBN 13: 9781631494734

Author Bio
Born in Australia, Clive James lives in Cambridge, England. He is the author of Unreliable Memoirs; a volume of selected poems, Opal Sunset; the best-selling Cultural Amnesia; and the translator of The Divine Comedy by Dante. He has written for the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.