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Double Crossing: New & Selected Poems

Double Crossing: New & Selected Poems

by EvaSalzman (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $15.04
Synopsis

Eva Salzman is a thoroughly modern, urban poet who writes with equal wit and precision about the natural - and unnatural world. In her sceptical, restless poems, irreverent muses and relentless twins take on sharply contemporary subjects: society, the unreliability of memory and - especially - identity, gender and love, sexual or otherwise. Born in New York, Eva Salzman moved to Britain in 1985, and four books later has firmly established herself as one of our most irrepressible and necessary poets. Double Crossing includes many new poems as well as selections from collections including The English Earthquake, Bargain with the Watchman and One Two.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published: 27 May 2004
ISBN 10: 1852246618
ISBN 13: 9781852246617

Media Reviews
'Eva Salzman is one of the most accomplished poets working in Britain today...her wit, directness and fresh approach to language, whether fierce or lyrical, may be seen as American qualities...From the first moment I encountered her poetry, I knew that Eva Salzman was the real thing, devoted to a demanding but sparking art. She is at the height of her powers at the moment' - Peter Porter; 'Eva Salzman is no slouch. She has a satirist's eye and ear alert to the emotional and verbal cliche, the easy lie, and she can be gracefully ruthless. She can shift register from the formal and elegiac to an astringent New York sarcasm. She can shuffle the vocabularies of love and landscape, turn the grotesque poignant, the funny terrifying - a facility rare on either side of the Atlantic' - Michael Donaghy 'A major talent...Plenty of bite...the hormones are almost good enough to smell' - Poetry Review
Author Bio
Eva Salzman was born in 1960 in New York City, and grew up in Brooklyn where - from the age of 10 until 22 - she was a dancer and later a choreographer. She was educated at Bennington College and Columbia University, moving to Britain in 1985. She now lives in London. Her eclectic background has led to work in cross-arts projects with artists, dancers and singers. Her teaching work - for children, teenagers and adults - has included projects in London's East End and a residency at Springhill Prison as well as continuing work for the Poetry Society's Poet in the City and Poetryclass projects and co-devising a Start Writing Poetry course for the Open University.