Proust by Richard Bales
Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace--the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive. You were supposed to find God here / the signs said. In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention; overlooked places of industry become sites for pilgrimage; and history large and small--of a city, of a family, of a shirt--is unearthed. Here is a factory emptying for the day, a snowy road just past border patrol, a baseball game at dusk. Mile signs point us toward Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Salt Lake City, Chicago. And god is not the God expected, but the still moment amid movement: a field lit like the heart / of the night, black stars stitched to the yellow sweatshirts of men in a crowd. A map bleached / pale by time and weather--and an engrossing urban pastoral (Washington Post)--North American Stadiums is a collection at once resolutely unsentimental yet deeply tender, illuminating the historical forces that shape the places we inhabit and how those places, in turn, shape us.
The Editor: Richard Bales is Professor of Modern French Literature at Queen's University, Belfast, specialising in the work of Marcel Proust, on whom he has published four books. He has also written on French novelists of the nineteenth century, and on Belgian Symbolism. He is currently involved in a major collaborative project to edit Proust's Cahiers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780729303804 |
| ISBN 10 | 0729303802 |
| Title | Proust |
| Author | Richard Bales |
| Series | Critical Guides To French Texts S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Grant & Cutler at Foyles |
| Year published | 1996-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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