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a.m. (Salt Modern Poets)
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"A.M." achieves something quite remarkable: a calm that is a sublimated urgency, a meditation on distance that opens into a habitat for human intimacy: 'the emptiness that forms before love comes'. Distance, here, is a prerequisite for relation, and this writing is in relentless and passionate pursuit, courting 'you' for its extended family, placating 'all of these things with their gaping beaks/of light and shape and weight, all asking/not to be left out'. One of the many joys of this artful construction is that it is a public building, at pains to resist 'an outmoded binary opposition between luxury and necessity'. Mandelstam claimed "To read Pasternak's poetry is to clear your throat, to fortify your breathing, to fill your lungs; surely such poetry could provide a cure for tuberculosis". In "A.M.", Ayres has set his sights on the common cold.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2929253 in Books
- Published on: 2003-04-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
Editorial Reviews
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Human breadth and scope, surging long-term rhythm, like a Russian novel, not like British poetry. An ordinary self fighting through image-fields: personal and lyrical without any of the diminution those adjectives normally imply, rather balladic: muckle sangs, hymns to the imagination. It is a shock -- we do not in Britain expect our poets to be such heroes, or the life of the powerless to be so full of genuinely grand substance. -- Peter Riley The poetry of Michael Ayres occupies that space where the world and language collide, and it illuminates both. -- Tony Frazer
About the Author
Michael Ayres was born in Chilwell, Nottingham on November 3 1958, and lived in Dorset, Leicestershire and Cleveland. He gained a degree in English from the University of Hull in 1982, and has lived in Cambridge since 1986. He is the author of Poems 1987–1992 (Odyssey Poets, 1994), and of two pamphlets in the Poetical Histories series – no. 44, 1976 Streets (1998), and no. 51, The Sky That Was Your Guide (2000).
