num_pages: 71
description: From the London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic Circle, Greenlaw explores elements of place-the child-hood landscapes we leave behind, those we travel toward, and those that we believe to be missing from our lives. Greenlaw's restless, inquisitive tone builds to make Minsk a hypnotic collection from one of the leading poets of her generation.Camel HairEvery few years it becomesa question of backbone.Anhedonia,not love of winterbut a loss of the feel of the world,a way ahead of the cold.Even the cells refuseto talk to one another.As black and whiteas a two-hour wait on the kerbof a six-lane arterial road,in a secondhand straw-coloured Dior coat,for the last bus and its overloadto accelerate past out of its ownwell-oiled backsplash.
language: English
title: Minsk: Poems
titlecomplete: Minsk: Poems
genres: British Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 86
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt