The Built Moment

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Lavinia Greenlaw

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Lavinia Greenlaw's last collection, The Casual Perfect (2011), focused on 'the achievement of the provisional'. The Built Moment explores what we build out of the provisional: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, and the moments we fix as memories, fixing too their joy and pain. The first section, 'The Sea is an Edge and an Ending', is a sequence of poems about her father's dementia and his disappearance into the present tense. It is not a narrative of illness so much as a meditation on the metaphysics of memory and loss. What does it mean to exist only in the present, for your sense of self to come loose and for the past to float free? The second section, 'The Bluebell Horizontal', looks towards possibility, and proposes new frameworks in the face of loss. It includes a prayer, a blessing and a speculation on why we cling on to pain. There are structures that arrest remembering and forgetting, and the fundamental arrest of a poet's difficulty with words. The Built Moment masterfully demonstrates how, as we get older and death becomes more a part of life, what we build and what we break out of become more important than ever.

Author Biography:

Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London. She has published five collections of poetry with Faber & Faber including Minsk (2003), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes, and The Casual Perfect (2011). A Double Sorrow:Troilus and Criseyde (2014) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Her novels include In the City of Love's Sleep (2018) and her non-fiction includes The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland.

Release date NZ

February 7th, 2019

Author

Lavinia Greenlaw

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Edition

Main

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General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

144x224x11

ISBN-13

9780571347100

Product ID

28312263

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