The poet - a man of the world in the widest sense - reflects and in reflection relives the intense experiences that shaped him and that have shaped our modern world. Salvage at Twilight ends with 'Deposition', a harrowing elegy in five parts: the beloved endures 'her Nile of pain'; the lover attends as she is treated, the last scene postponed until the two selves are quite differently refined. His editor has written, 'Dan Burt's poetry, like his prose, explores themes unusual in contemporary literature, using a language that is precise, nuanced and mordant. And he risks traditional forms, his sonnets and quatrains mastered and masterful.'
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Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
Publication Date: 31 Oct 2019
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781784107918
About Dan Burt
Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia read English at St John's College Cambridge and attended Yale Law School. A lawyer and businessman his poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry Review PN Review TLS The Financial Times The New Statesman The Sunday Times Granta Commonweal Clutag Five Poems Series The Forward Book of Poetry (best poems of 2013) The Poetry of Sex (Penguin Anthology) The Institute News Letter (Institute for Advanced Study) Courtauld News and New Poetries V (2011) amongst others. Two chapbooks Searched For Text (2008) and Certain Windows (2011) were published by Lintott/Carcanet Press as well as a collaboration Cold Eye with artist Paul Hodgson (Marlborough Graphics/Lintott Press 2010). Carcanet published We Look Like This a collected edition of his poetry and prose in May 2012. Notting Hill Editions published the UK edition of his memoir You Think It Strange in 2014 and Overlook Press the US edition in 2015. The Poetry Archive has twice recorded him reading his work. He lives and writes in London and St. John's College Cambridge of which he is an Honorary Fellow.