The Guest from the Future Paperback - 1997
by Jon Stallworthy (Editor); Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
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- Title The Guest from the Future
- Author Jon Stallworthy (Editor); Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 70
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date 1997-09-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780393316933_inp
- ISBN 9780393316933 / 0393316939
- Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.55 x 0.24 in (21.59 x 14.10 x 0.61 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Category Poetry
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.914
- Quantity available 992
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From the rear cover
An old friend told Jon Stallworthy of her flight from war-torn Poland, carrying in her bedding-roll a coverlet she was embroidering for her fiance and herself. Her story bears a curious inverse relationship with that of the 'Lady of Shalott.' Tennysons's patrician artist in her tower, forced to choose between the world and its 'shadows' in her mirror, opts for the world and is destroyed; the peasant artist engages with the world and is sustained by an art that reflects that engagement. The modern story Stallworthy traces over the ghostly outline of the old points a parable about one function of art, what Seamus Heaney calls its power of 'redress', in this or any time.
