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Firewriting and Other Poems (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Firewriting and Other Poems'Firewriting' is John Muckle's first collection of poems, following two collections of short fiction. The book revolves around the long title poem, an extraordinary conceit which imagines that Walter Benjamin survived and lived to an advanced age. This and the supporting poems demonstrate the author's narrative skills.
Full description- Publisher: Shearsman Books
- Published: 17 January 2005
- Format: Paperback 132 pages
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- Categories: Poetry | Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9780907562641 ISBN 10: 0907562647
- Sales rank: 1,178,631
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Full description for Firewriting and Other Poems
This is John Muckle's first poetry collection. The book's main feature is the long title poem, in which the author imagines that the German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin escaped death by his own hand on the French-Spanish border in 1940 - his revolver misfired - and has survived as a kind of wanderer and witness. After the war he returned to Paris, but later moved to London where, in the 'now' of the poem at the age of 120, he is recalling some of his ideas - and confessing - to a nurse, whom he imagines might also be a student of his work. The poem is a personal view of Benjamin, and the author hopes that any reader unfamiliar with his writings might begin with 'Illuminations' and embark on a long journey with one of the great radical thinkers of any century. The remainder of the book features many of Muckle's trademark narrative poems.
