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The Book of Shadows

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The Book of Shadows

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Eloquent, illuminating, and intimate, The Book of Shadows is where the profound, the poetic and the profane meet to glorious effect Aphorism (n.): a pithy observation which contains a general truth 'All my teachers have been women. Though several men have taken me aside for an hour to tell me things they know' The Book of Shadows contains several hundred reflections and aphorisms on love, God, art, sex, death, work, and the spirit, imagination and conduct of the human animal. Writing with the same mixture of high seriousness, dark humour and lyric precision that define his poetry, Don Paterson has made a book to carry everywhere and open anywhere - to brighten or darken the moment, but always to administer a jolt to the idling mind. 'Falling and flying are near-identical sensations, in all but one final detail. We should remember htis when we see those men and women seemingly in love with their own decline'

Author Biography

Don Paterson's most recent poetry collection, Landing Light, won the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award, and also received the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize - making him the first poet to have won the award twice. He works as a musician and editor, teaches at the University of St Andrews, and lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland.
Release date NZ
October 3rd, 2005
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Picador
Pages
208
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Dimensions
130x197x14
ISBN-13
9780330431842
Product ID
1663777

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