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How the Stone Found Its Voice

How the Stone Found Its Voice

by Moniza Alvi (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $3.44
Synopsis

Moniza Alvi's title sequence How The Stone Found Its Voice is a series of poems inspired by creation myths. Begun in the wake of the tragedy of 9/11, they are imbued with the dark spirit of that time, with titles including 'How The World Split In Two', 'How The Answers Got Their Questions' and 'How The Countries Slipped Away'. These are followed by poems in which Moniza Alvi takes a more autobiographical approach to racial conflict and the split between East and West, and by The Return of My Wife' a continuation of a sequence from her earlier book Carrying My Wife. Versions of the French poet Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) with their Second World War background and exploration of personal fragility provide a linking thread. How the Stone Found Its Voice is a varied collection with echoes across its different sections, all equally vital to the whole.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 64
 Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published: 01 Mar 2005
ISBN 10: 1852246944
ISBN 13: 9781852246945

Media Reviews
'Alvi is a bold surrealist, whose poems open the world up in new, imaginatively absurd ways' - ruth padel, Independent 'Moniza Alvi's world is a place of wild energy...Alvi's voice has achieved a relaxed naturalness, a fluidity which allows her to present these delicious, extraordinary poems as though it were easy' - kathleen jamie & hugo williams, PBS Bulletin 'She is a skilled storyteller, recounting the extraordinary in the voice of the everyday, so that we accept the miraculous as something we need...the overriding impression is of a deft, restrained language carrying ideas with metaphysical wit and seriousness' - leonie rushforth, London Magazine
Author Bio
moniza alvi left Pakistan for England when a few months old. In The Country at My Shoulder and A Bowl of Warm Air, she drew on real and imagined homelands in poems which are 'vivid, witty and imbued with unexpected and delicious glimpses of the surreal - this poet's third country' (Maura Dooley). Her Bloodaxe selection Carrying My Wife (2000) contains both those collections, as well as a new collection in which she plays the role of husband to an imaginary wife. She has since published two further collections, Souls (2002) and How the Stone Found Its Voice (2005).