Night Office by Simon Jarvis

Night Office by Simon Jarvis

Night Office is the initial publication from among a small set of long poems for which the collective title is The Calendar. Each poem relates to the others as the points, not in a line, but of a star: none need be considered as first or last. Each explores those manners in which the invisible life of the soul throws off from itself tunes, colours, times, histories and nations; each, from verse constraints upon syllable and intonation, works towards the concrete freedoms of poetic thinking. Night Office listens out, through its long white night, for the silencing of human sounds - as these last fall asleep into their signs. - S.J.

Simon Jarvis is Gorley Putt Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Cambridge University. He has published studies of Wordsworth, Adorno Shakespearean criticism. His previous poetry publications include The Unconditional (2005) and Dionysus Crucified (2011). Cover photograph: Chicago Landscape #190 by Art Sinsabaugh. Art Sinsabaugh Archive, Indiana University Art Museum, 300.III.1.190 A(c) Katherine Anne Sinsabaugh and Elisabeth Sinsabaugh de la Cova

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ISBN 13	9781907587337
ISBN 10	1907587330
Title	Night Office
Author	Simon Jarvis
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Enitharmon Press
Year published	2013-07-02
Number of pages	224
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