Selected Poems

Name: Selected Poems
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ISBN: 9780374260651

ISBN-10: 0374260656

ISBN-13: 9780374260651

Edition: 2006

Authors: James Fenton

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"Listen to what they did.""Don't listen to what they said.""What was written in blood""Has been set up in lead."-- from " Blood and Lead" The leading poet of his generation, James Fenton has over the course of his career built a body of work breathtaking in its range and sensibility. From the passionate political poems that launched him into fame to the intimate illuminations of love-- and loss of love-- in his later work, Fenton's poetry has always been marked by formal daring, wit, and an abiding empathy for the victims of war and political oppression. With selections from all of his published work since "The Memory of War," the entire text of his libretto "The Love Bomb," and new,…

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List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

James Fenton has been a foreign correspondent & a theater critic & has written about the history of gardens. His most recent book of poems, "Out of Danger", was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1994.



Author's Note



From The Memory of Warand


Children in Exile


Wind


A German Requiem


Cambodia


In a Notebook


Dead Soldiers


Lines for Translation into Any Language


Children in Exile


God, A Poem


The Skip



From Out of Danger


Beauty, Danger and Dismay


Out of Danger


Serious


The Ideal


Hinterhof


The Possibility


The Mistake


I'll Explain


In Paris with You


The Milkfish Gatherers


Jerusalem


For Andrew Wood


Out of the East


Blood and Lead


The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah


I Saw a Child


Tiananmen


The Ballad of the Shrieking Man


Fireflies of the Sea


Cut-Throat Christ


Gabriel


The Ballad of the Birds


I Know What I'm Missing


Here Come the Drum Majorettes!


The Orange Dove of Fiji


The Exchange


An Indistinct Inscription Near Kom Ombo



The Love Bomb



Recent Work


Memorial


Yellow Tulips


Martine's Song


Everything in Your Window Is a Sign


Was That Your Idea of Love?


The Alibi


I Kept That Gun


Down to the Twigs and Seeds


Never Let Me See You Suffer