Pictures from Mayhew. by John Seed

Pictures from Mayhew. by John Seed

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"Pictures from Mayhew" takes the voices reported by Henry Mayhew in the mid-19th century and splices them together into poems, allowing the voices space and a chance to communicate again to another age. Every word in the book is drawn from Mayhew's transcriptions.

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Pictures from Mayhew. by John Seed

Pictures from Mayhew takes the voices reported by Henry Mayhew in the mid-19th century and splices them together into poems, allowing the voices space and a chance to communicate again to another age. Every word in the book is drawn from Mayhew's transcriptions.
John Seed was born in 1950 and brought up in the North-East of England. He has lived and worked in London as a historian since 1983. This book, his sixth poetry collection poetry, brings together his research on the social history of London and his continuing explorations of the Objectivist aesthetic represented in the work of Williams, Oppen and Reznikoff, among others.
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ISBN 13 9780907562627
ISBN 10 0907562620
Title Pictures from Mayhew.
Author John Seed
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Shearsman Books
Year published 2005-04-15
Number of pages 172
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.