{"product_id":"9781800173170-another-art-of-poetry-doorstones","title":"Another Art of Poetry and Doorstones","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMichael Edwards' new collection consists of 92 poems forming a single long poem that recounts the finding of another world in moments, often dramatic, sometimes everyday, which become doorstones, thresholds.\u003cbr\u003eMichael Edwards returned to the English tongue for his last book of poems, \u003cem\u003eAt the Brasserie Lipp\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), after years as a French-language author. English revived many nerves of memory, and in \u003cem\u003eAnother Art of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e he explores them further, in ten chapters, each consisting of continuously numbered sections. There are 194 sections, so we can read the book as a continuous sequence, as ten discrete poems, or as single lyrics and epistles interspersed.\u003cbr\u003e               There is something Augustan about the approach, humorous, alert, like a series of letters and reflections spoken to us. The formal variety of the sections reminds us how well Edwards knows his Eliot, Williams, Pound, his David Jones; he understands modernism and the other resources that inform the grateful poets who value our European and wider traditions. ('The godsend of influence.') Originality has to do with origins. 'Everything has been said,' he begins, 'and we come \/ just at the right moment.'\u003cbr\u003e               His English re-visions once familiar landscapes in Wivenhoe, in Paris and elsewhere; it finds his antecedents, it restores access to belief and transcendence. \u003cem\u003eDoorstones\u003c\/em\u003e, an additional full collection, bridges the gap between \u003cem\u003eAt the Brasserie Lipp\u003c\/em\u003e and this ars poetica.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40888533942369,"sku":"9781800173170","price":11.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35899418_91d9c79f-8059-4a83-b315-39dcacca79ff.jpg?v=1756932641","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800173170-another-art-of-poetry-doorstones","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}