Description
David Lloyd's poetry abides in a lineage of poetic modernism, often in dialogue with poets like César Vallejo, Paul Celan, and Mahmoud Darwish. The poems in The Harm Fields are rich in imagery, their language a fluent mix of registers, from colloquial idioms to technical language and literary citation, and replete with multilingual puns and portmanteaux. These poems carry forward the musical values and the questioning project of the modernist lyric, but their concerns are contemporary, haunted by the ongoing brutality of the times, from Ireland to Palestine, and reaching for a language adequate to mourning, persistence, and utopian possibility.
Author: David Lloyd
Publisher: Georgia Review Books
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d
ISBN13: 9780820362625
ISBN10: 082036262X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places
Author: David Lloyd
Publisher: Georgia Review Books
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d
ISBN13: 9780820362625
ISBN10: 082036262X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places
About the Author
DAVID LLOYD is the Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Among his many publications are Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009; Beckett's Thing: Painting and Theatre; Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics; and Counterpoetics of Modernity: On Irish Poetry and Modernism. His play, The Press/Le Placard, is available in a bilingual edition from Presses Universitaires du Midi.