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  Designed to Fade (Paperback) By (author) Mary Coghill

  

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  Short Description for Designed to FadeA narrative poem about life in a modern city, a journey through a day in London seen through a woman's eyes, with the drama beginning in the early hours and ending at the same time the following day. This work develops a post-modernist slant to the dramatic unities of time, place and character, and intends to evoke a certain sense of empathy.
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  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Published: 28 September 2006
  • Format: Paperback 120 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781905700059 ISBN 10: 1905700059

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Full description for Designed to Fade

• Mary Coghill's first collection is a sequence of poems that seeks to engage with the problem of the role of woman in the city. Urbanisation is frequently seen as a male phenomenon, and it is usually men who have written paeans to the cities in which they live. Mary Coghill uses an enormous array of styles and effects to draw her picture of a woman's life in London, showing its joys and its dangers, demonstrating the particular problems that women have in this all-too-masculine environment, and celebrating the feminine side which is all too rarely brought to light. Designed to Fade is a stylistic tour-de-force, and a most unusual sequence of poems.