MacInnes, Mairi, Mairi, MacInnes
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From Kirkus Reviews MacInnes, who presently makes her home in England, has also lived in Berlin and the US. In an autobiographical essay, Why Poetry,
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included here, she recounts some family history and her experiences of being a married woman, mother, and writer whose literary aspirations had for some time been subordinated to her duties to her family. Eventually she climbed out of the bog with a poem called I Object, Said the Object and got back to work. MacInnes's writing is edgy, skillful, and often dazzling in its turns of thought and phrase. A fallow deer that looks through the clear glass of the woods, as if all were illusion is, like the person watching it, a witness in opposition, / one who did not subscribe to the régime we've grown up in. In Hard Lives, several roe deer leap in front of the car one foggy night and bound off like bolt after bolt of silk tossed to the floor, and not until days later does the significance of the scene hit home: that the deer had been so famished / they'd fed with the farmer's sheep, so vulnerable they fled / at the crunch of the car; and more, the world we despised / was open for them to take refuge in / as it wasn't for us, who weren't secretive, or starving. Reflecting on the craft of poetry, MacInnes writes, when a poem appears to work, even in my intolerably rough and ready approximations, there's a sublime moment in which all comes together and sheds light. Many of these poems do just that. -- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Product description In The Ghostwriter, Mairi MacInnes''s characters have become more rooted, but are still restless and edgy. Her focus now is more on the people set against her North Country landscapes, on her fragility in the face of life, on tensions and anxieties.' Review At The Gericault Exhibition: 1. The Hussar At The Gericault Exhibition: 2. The Carthorses At The Gericault Exhibition: 3. The Kleptomaniac The Committee Road The Engagement: Con-man The Engagement: In The Night The Engagement: Let It Be The Engagement: Prelude The Engagement: Prothalamion The Engagement: Re-make The Engagement: The Fact The Engagement: The Fire The Engagement: The Unravelling The Engagement: Time And Again Finn's People Four Kinds Of Bird: 1. The Dunnock Four Kinds Of Bird: 2. The Dipper Four Kinds Of Bird: 3. The Swallow Four Kinds Of Bird: 4. The Cock Pheasant Generations The Ghostwriter The Given The Grimshaws Hard Lives In Hospital In The High Wood In The Village (2) Insight Ladies Lunch A Landscape, North Yorkshire Missing November Digging Past Histories: Passion Past Histories: Plymouth Past Histories: The Caul The Poppies The Rehearsal Travelling North Why Poetry? -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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