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  Berlin Bursts (Paperback) By (author) Robert Sheppard

  

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  Short Description for Berlin BurstsThese new poems use tense couplets and other 'centrifugal' forms to centre their energies in nodes of impacted attention. They feature territories as dispersed as Sheppard's local City of Culture and the global city of division and political murder of the title poem.
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  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • Format: Paperback 94 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781848611351 ISBN 10: 1848611358
  • Sales rank: 879,211

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Full description for Berlin Bursts

• These new poems use tense couplets and other 'centrifugal' forms to centre their energies in nodes of impacted attention. They feature territories as dispersed as Sheppard's local City of Culture and the global city of division and political murder of the title poem. The scar of history is drawn across the face of time, as in tragic Riga where we find reflections on artefacts of survival. Yet a series of metapoems brings agency and wonder to the idea of the poem, always seeing the world as well as itself, in perceptual double-takes that tease away at the meaning of the poetic act: "You'll never finish reading/ the poem in the book with reality pulling itself/ inside out before your eyes."