Veii and other poems

Veii and other poems
Robert Wells
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h216 x 135mm - 96pg
29 Jul 2021 UK
9781800171244
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The title poem of this collection, Robert Wells' s first since the Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. There as a child the poet discovered an incised potsherd: ' Was that the day when antiquity / - The place where all is over and done - / Took ineluctable hold of me? ' The poems return to familiar places and themes from a later ' now' , a revised perspective: memories are real, perhaps more vivid than before, but further off, measuring time and age. Ancient coins abound. In ' The Coin Cabinet' they are conjured in their variety by means of a series of epithetic evocations, so that one does not doubt their reality, or the complex mythology they evoke and the economy rooted in long traditions and rich in known, shared narratives. ' Robert Wells' s language is exact, the experience of the poem is deeply gone through,' Thom Gunn wrote, ' there is a constant desire to adhere to the truth as he apprehended it rather than to glamorize it. The inexpressible becomes expressed. '
' He inherits the tender, threatening profundity of Edward Thomas. ' - Anne Stevenson
Robert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman, a teacher, and in publishing. He lives in France. Carcanet has published his translations of Virgil' s Georgics and The Idylls of Theocritus, and five volumes of his poetry, the latest being Collected Poems and Translations (2009).
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ISBN-13: 9781800171244
Published: 29 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Carcanet Press
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 8mm
Pages: 96

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