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Reckitt's Blue "Wilkinson, John"

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom Seagull Books London Ltd 11/01/2013Description: 112 PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780857420923
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.914 JOH
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Contents:
Poetry by individual poets
Summary: "An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's ""L'escarpolette"", or ""The Swing"", is often reproduced, and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper midswing is widely familiar. In ""Reckitt's Blue"", John Wilkinson explores that well-known scene in a long poem that engages with the image of the flying slipper, and he also presents two other sequences of poems based on paintings. Though born out of visual encounters with art, these poems also examine weaponry and domestic and ritual objects - artifacts that evoke a violent encounter. Here, Wilkinson's concentrated lines evidence what the critic Simon Jarvis has called his ""unfree verse,"" that reaches into new and unexpected territory in both style and theme. This combination of sensual beauty, intellectual ambition, and political acuity is like nothing else in contemporary English-language poetry."
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An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's L ' escarpolette, or The Swing, is often reproduced and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper mid-swing is widely familiar. In Reckitt's Blue , John Wilkinson explores that well-known scene in a sequence of poems that engages with the image of the flying slipper.

Though born out of visual encounters with art, the title poem of this book also examines artifacts that evoke a violent encounter, weaponry and domestic and ritual objects from the Jolika collection of Papua New Guinean materials in San Francisco's de Young Museum. It is here that Wilkinson's concentrated lines evidence what the critic Simon Jarvis has called Wilkinson's "unfree verse," that reaches into new and unexpected territory in both style and theme. This combination of sensual beauty, intellectual ambition, and political acuity is like nothing else in contemporary English-language poetry. The 'Tornada' that separates and stitches together these sequences meditates on fire, clay and glaze, on violence and reflective stillness. "John Wilkinson's taut, precise poems, in which lyric grace and ethical urgency move together but never comfortably mix, amount to one of the most significant bodies of work in contemporary poetry."--Patrick McGuinness

Poetry by individual poets

"An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's ""L'escarpolette"", or ""The Swing"", is often reproduced, and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper midswing is widely familiar. In ""Reckitt's Blue"", John Wilkinson explores that well-known scene in a long poem that engages with the image of the flying slipper, and he also presents two other sequences of poems based on paintings. Though born out of visual encounters with art, these poems also examine weaponry and domestic and ritual objects - artifacts that evoke a violent encounter. Here, Wilkinson's concentrated lines evidence what the critic Simon Jarvis has called his ""unfree verse,"" that reaches into new and unexpected territory in both style and theme. This combination of sensual beauty, intellectual ambition, and political acuity is like nothing else in contemporary English-language poetry."

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