Star City
Subtitle: Including <I>The Coalville Divan</I> and <I>Excellent Men</I>
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Published: August 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781857547436
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Australian English; Poetry; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish
Description: "John Gallas's new collection is two books in one. The Coalville Divan makes miniature movies from the wisdom of the Persian sages. Each of the hundred sonnets returns a proverb to the particular lives, moments and places that made it. These little narratives put Life back up there with its Meaning." "Excellent Men, the second book, takes a different route to Star City. Fellini is followed by the Unknown Soldier, Alfred Schnittke can almost touch the muezzin who was a tape recorder, and William Bees VC is three steps away from a Mongolian marmot-killer. Here are the lit-up males of a writer's heart, claimed by admiration, kinship, amazement, love, poetry and a good laugh."--Jacket.