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Strongly rooted in the wonders of the natural world, this collection of poems strikes a balance along the mind's boundaries, looking outward and inward. Combining a cool gaze with a precise clarity of expression, the verse is muscular and delicate, spare and musical. From "that net of birds / that moves / unloosened / under bridges at dusk" to "the sea / wrecking itself against the rocks," Robertson is a master of evocative depiction. Filled with an irrepressible zest for life, he traces the arc of loss, the search for grace, and the radiance and shadows of life with a subtlety that is at once exhilarating and sensual.
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- Title Slow Air
- Author Robin Robertson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 80
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, US
- Date 2003-04-01
- ISBN 9780151007462 / 0151007462
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8.68 x 5.82 x 0.47 in (22.05 x 14.78 x 1.19 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002038934
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.914
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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SLOW AIR
"Each poem comes to us so cleansed of excess, so concentrated and perfectly pared down to its essence we can only wonder at the adamantine sharpness of its edges."--Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States
PRAISE FOR ROBIN ROBERTSON
"Robin Robertson is instantly recognizable as a poet of vivid authority, commanding a surprised, accurate language of his own."--W. S. Merwin
"The genius of this Scots poet is for finding the sensually charged moment . . . and depicting it in language that is simultaneously spare and ample."--The New Yorker
"Each poem comes to us so cleansed of excess, so concentrated and perfectly pared down to its essence we can only wonder at the adamantine sharpness of its edges."--Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States
PRAISE FOR ROBIN ROBERTSON
"Robin Robertson is instantly recognizable as a poet of vivid authority, commanding a surprised, accurate language of his own."--W. S. Merwin
"The genius of this Scots poet is for finding the sensually charged moment . . . and depicting it in language that is simultaneously spare and ample."--The New Yorker
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