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Fuller, John
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John Fuller is one of Britain’s more high profile contemporary poets, as well as a novelist and academic. He has written 15 collections of poetry of which the last, Ghosts, was shorlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award for Poetry. He is also the author of Flying to Nowhere, which was shortlisted for the Book Prize, and W.H. Auden: A Commentary.
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"Fuller is a wonderfully skilled craftsman and the grace and elegance of his style is at the service of not only a sharp wit and intelligence, but a great depth of feeling" * Sunday Telegraph * "Sustained and deeply felt, it is unafraid to create 'The Space of Joy'" * Arts & Book Review * "A work of formal virtuosity" * Guardian *
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0701181109
- ISBN 13 9780701181109
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- Number of pages96
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In a series of poems that tell a story, John Fuller contemplates that age-old question of 'Life versus Art'. The verse is both a brilliant pastiche of such great artists as Petrarch, Coleridge and Wallace Stevens, and an exploration of their private lives and craft.The Space of Joy is a sequence of poems that recounts the endless desire for love (and the failures and compromises that accompany that desire) in a number of writers and musicians who fatally prioritise their art. It begins with Petrarch, who created great lyric poetry out of an impossible infatuation, and moves through Coleridge's self-induced guilt within domestic happiness, Matthew Arnold's disbelief in mutual love, Brahm's self-delusion and the complexities of Wallace Stevens's marriage.It so happens that both Brahms and Arnold found themselves contemplating their art and their lives in the small Swiss town of Thun, and it is Thun that provides the setting for the wonderful concluding poem of this collection in which Fuller thinks back to his own boyood and his parents' marriage.If there is any resolution in this sequence of magnificently playful and thought-provoking poems, it is the conviction that while 'poetry may be the only heaven we have', it is life itself that must create the 'space of joy' which art wishes to celebrate.Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. The Space of Joy is a sequence of poems that recounts the endless desire for love (and the failures and compromises that accompany that desire) in a number of writers and musicians who fatally prioritise their art. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780701181109
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