Arrondissements by Douglas Oliver

Arrondissements by Douglas Oliver

Oliver's poetry is humorous, beautiful, often naked. It is served by both light-of-day reasonableness and a willful subconscious which knows the dark but can't stop playing with language. The return of his voice in Arrondissements will be a pleasure for both old and new readers.

In this posthumous volume, edited by his widow Alice Notley, Douglas takes fresh inspiration from the fantastical labyrinth of the French capitalThe result is a teeming and panoramic book that rises at its best to the genuinely visionary... It is a poignant loss to British poetry that there will be no new game-playing from the noble nomadic spirit that was Douglas Oliver.

Douglas Oliver was born in 1937, of Scottish parents, and grew up in Bournemouth. He worked for many years as a journalist, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 70s. He subsequently lived in Brightlingsea, Paris, New York, and again Paris, usually working as a lecturer. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including In the Cave of Suicession, The Diagram Poems, The Harmless Building, The Infant and the Pearl, Poetry and Narrative in Performance, Penniless Politics, Three Variations on the Theme of Harm, and A Salvo for Africa. He died in Paris in 2000.

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ISBN 13	9781844710195
ISBN 10	184471019X
Title	Arrondissements
Author	Douglas Oliver
Series	Salt Modern Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2003-09-20
Number of pages	172
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