The clarity of distant things

The clarity of distant things
Jane Duran
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Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 80pg
30 Sep 2021 UK
9781800171596
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' Her poems are voyages of discovery. Literally. Over and over she writes about the journeys, physical and metaphysical, that are transformative experiences. ' So wrote Sarah Maguire of Jane Duran, whose new book' s two striking sequences take readers into other worlds, ' gridlines' , in which the life and paintings of Agnes Martin are interwoven, and ' miniatures of al-Andalus' inspired by the medieval Galician-Portuguese Cantigas de Santa Maria and artworks and artefacts of the period. The simple gridlines of Duran' s couplets recall Martin' s square canvasses, her precisely rendered grids and luminous stripes. Responding to individual images and to Martin' s own biography, discovering lovely breaths of life entering the ' grey rectangles' , the poems' intricate interlockings and brilliant images seem almost to escape the poems' formal enclosures, so that Martin' s ' The Peach 1964' , ' gave me back // only beige, graphite, / ink, sanity // and orchard after orchard' .
' Duran twists her hybrid colours into rich, sensual, and perfectly controlled statements of memory and loss. . . A poet to rejoice in. ' - The Observer
Jane Duran was born in Cuba and raised in the USA and Chile. Selections of her poems have appeared in Poetry Introduction 8 (Faber 1993), Making for Planet Alice (Bloodaxe 1997), and Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe 2005). In 1995 Enitharmon published her first full collection, Breathe Now, Breathe which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Enitharmon also published 4 subsequent collections, including Coastal (2005) and Graceline (2010) which were both PBS Recommendations. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2005.
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ISBN-13: 9781800171596
Published: 30 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Carcanet Press
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 80

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