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ONLY FIG & PROSCIUTTO IBD

LUKE WHITINGTON
GINNINDERRA PRESS
03 / 2017
9781760413132
Inglés

Sinopsis

&ldquo,These poems record a life lived sensuously and to the full in three countries: Italy, Ireland, and Australia. In an era when eros-charged descriptions of foreign feasts make best-selling travel books and TV programs, this book will find a large audience. But Luke Whitington is far more than a sensualist whose mind&rsquo,s tongue curves inquisitively round gnocchi in the shape of a famous courtesan&rsquo,s navel. This is a poet who knows history and art, and feels intensely áboth youth&rsquo,s freshness and the nostalgias of age, lamenting lost parents and lovers. His Italy is flavoured by Horace and Brodsky, and his imagery is rich and deep. Hedges shaken by a storm in Ireland are seen &lsquo,running away like green-cloaked rogues&rsquo,. The moon rises like a &lsquo,Soaring circular Sphinx, slowing in mid-summer night air&rsquo,. Youth clings to a middle-aged man&rsquo,s complexion &lsquo,Like an anxious fly&rsquo,. A high wind sets the leaves &lsquo,streaming this way, that way / Like frightened mice&rsquo,. Lovers lie embraced, &lsquo,While the whole world looks, and thinks it sees.&rsquo, Pigeon-swarms, &lsquo,intoxicated with the element&rsquo,, áswerve, dissolve, reform &lsquo,as if to a heavenly conductor&rsquo,s baton&rsquo,. Cows in a water-meadow munch flowers &lsquo,where Vikings rose in roars from bumping prows of curved ships&rsquo,. A poet of such luxuriant talent would normally have revealed it over a lifetime in a dozen slim volumes. Whitington instead has saved all his riches and served them up in this one sitting. Enjoy!&rdquo, - Mark O&rsquo,Connor &ldquo,For years, I have been part of a small group of friends who have received, almost daily, an early morning email from Luke W. As a rule, it would contain only two or three words of text, and an attachment &ndash, a poem. Newly minted, fresh out of his imagination, sometimes still to be completed. A prodigious production that meant a prodigious inner push to do poetry. It is something that would at times irritate: how does he dare doing so much and so well?áTo see now, finally in a book, some of those works, gives a sense of timelessness to those morning emails &ndash, they are now part of a coherent whole, of a life justified also by a poetic product of considerable, true quality and appeal. Good on you, early riser, constant, brilliant writer!&rdquo, - Paolo Totaro AM

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