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- Publication Name
- You
- Title
- You
- EAN
- 9781854115171
- ISBN
- 9781854115171
- Release Date
- 15/06/2010
- Release Year
- 2010
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Book Title
- You
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Seren Books
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General, African
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 4.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 84 Pages
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Shortlisted for the 2010 TS Eliot Prize You is the new book-length long poem by Costa-Award winning poet, John Haynes. The 'You' of the title is the narrator's wife of many years, partner in a cross-cultural union: he is a white British man and she was born and raised in Nigeria. Exploring a partnership based on culturally different - and sometimes painfully incompatible - conceptions of 'love', the poem is knit together by the philosophical theme of 'I' and 'you' seen from many perspectives. The poetry moves from the Nigeria where the couple first met, re-created with great joy and sensitivity, through their 'new' life in Britain and all the contrasts and problems it provokes: exposure to racism, unfamiliar customs, homesickness, cold weather, raising children in a strange land. Written in an adaptation of a traditional 'Rhyme Royal' stanza used by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Auden and Yeats, Haynes nevertheless writes in beautifully clear English vernacular and this poem, set out in sections of three stanzas, flows unbroken from beginning to end. On Letter to Patience : "... ambitious and brilliant... as a poet of autobiographical realism on a grand scale, Haynes is the equal of Muldoon, Heaney or Hill, while his philosophical self-effacement is all his own. Full of wit, learning and humanity, this is wide writing that ought to be widely known." The Guardian "This is a work of great intelligence and immaculate formalism. Haynes' rhyming energy never flags, his writing stays dynamic, and at the end he employs one of the best imagistic sleights of hand since William Carlos Williams." Poetry London John Haynes won the 2006 Costa Prize for Poetry with his previous book, Letter to Patience (Seren), another long poem set in part in Nigeria during troubled times. A lecturer with a background in linguistics, Haynes is a superb reader of his work.
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Publisher
Seren Books
ISBN-10
1854115170
ISBN-13
9781854115171
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92570583
Product Key Features
Book Title
You
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, African
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
84 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Pr6058.A9858y68 2010
Reviews
The tensions inherent in this are compounded by the cross-cultural nature of the union. The narrator is a white British man and his wife was born and raised in Nigeria. Exploring a partnership based on culturally quite different and in some aspects painfully incompatible - conceptions of love, the poem is knit together by philosophical theme of I and you seen from many perspectives. The Nigeria where the couple met is re-created with great sensitivity. Amidst the joy of their early love, we meet a number of characters in the African extended family and village and trace the early mission education of You, the death of her father, her familys strongly felt Christianity. The narrator observes and embraces both the harsh facts and the undeniable beauty of the northern Nigerian setting. A new life in Britain offers its own contrasts and problems: exposure to racism, unfamiliar customs, homesickness, cold weather. The bringing up of children in a strange culture adds another thread of complexity to the theme of love. Much love poetry is based in the threat to that love, and in this long poem it is a threat that arises from the potential for misunderstanding posed by two kinds of love, one derived from romantic courtly love, the other from communal values in the homestead, the hoe and the cooking fire. Written in an adaptation of a traditional Rhyme Royal stanza used by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Auden and Yeats, Haynes nevertheless writes in beautifully clear English vernacular and this poem, set out in sections of three stanzas, flows unbroken from beginning to end., "This is a work of great intelligence and immaculate formalism. Haynes' rhyming energy never flags, his writing stays dynamic, and at the end he employs one of the best imagistic sleights-of-hand since William Carlos Williams." --Kathryn Maris, Poetry London, "This is a work of great intelligence and immaculate formalism. Haynes' rhyming energy never flags, his writing stays dynamic, and at the end he employs one of the best imagistic sleights-of-hand since William Carlos Williams." -Kathryn Maris, Poetry London
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
2010-515000
Dewey Decimal
821.914
Dewey Edition
22
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