Landing Light: Poems - Hardcover

Paterson, Don

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ISBN 10: 1555974171 ISBN 13: 9781555974176

Publisher: Graywolf Press, 2005

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The U.S. publication of the latest collection by Don Paterson, winner of the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award and two-time winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize

Dear son, I was mezzo del cammin
and the true path was as lost to me as ever
when you cut in front and lit it as you ran.
See how the true gift never leaves the giver . . .
―from "Waking with Russell"

Hailed for its "enormous skill and verve" (The Guardian) and its "seriousness and moral urgency" (The Independent), Landing Light is one of the most important and resonant poetry collections to come out of Britain in recent years. Ceaselessly inquiring, Don Paterson discovers the love of a son, a talking book, the voices of a wreckage left in the black box. In traditional forms, short lyrics, and long narratives, Paterson has crafted―with precision and passion―his most accomplished and spiritual collection.

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About the Author:

Don Paterson is a poet, editor, and musician. He is the author of The White Lie: New and Selected Poetry and coeditor (with Charles Simic) of New British Poetry. He lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland.

Review:

“America is in for a delightful treat now that the work of Scottish poet Don Paterson is within its easy reach. A perfect blend of light and dark humor, his poems combine the mordant with the celebratory, the sweetness of the heart with the bitter taste of experience. Most of all, he knows how to write poems in which every line is awake, every one composed with care and a billiard-player's feel for the way language can spin us subtly this way and that.” ―Billy Collins

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