The goodbyes
By: John Ash.
Publisher: Carcanet New Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
First sentence: The pianist commences the sonata about the angels and / the rain.
Description: Sonatas. Rain. Musical animals. Angels. Braided intersections. Architraves. Office buildings in sunsets. Those puppet theatres you used to be able to make up from the backs of breakfast cereals packets. . . . Sexual encounters in modernized fairy-tales. Science Fiction and disguised nostalgia. Some portraits . . . Music, not painting, as paradigm. Large rhythmic units, not 'metrically exact lines', not iambics except as ancestral ghosts . . .
Notes: PART ONE 13 poems. PART TWO 8 poems. PART THREE 6 poems. Author b.1948 Manchester, England. Poetry Book Society Choice.
Table of contents: label: Poem
title: Great Sonata 1
pagenum: 009; label: Poem
title: Great Sonata 2
pagenum: 062