The Mower Paperback - 2009
by Motion, Andrew
- Used
Description
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Details
- Title The Mower
- Author Motion, Andrew
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1ST
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 123
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Godine Publisher, David R, Boston
- Date 2009-03
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 45458847-6
- ISBN 9781567923896 / 1567923895
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 in (21.59 x 13.72 x 1.02 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009001682
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.914
From the jacket flap
Indeed, a significant and consistent feature of Motion's work, throughout his shifts in style and changes in imaginative topographies, is his signature clarity of observation, his unwillingness to sacrifice intelligibility or embrace opacity. Instead, Motion employs the full power of the English language to do his bidding, and, in love with words as he is, the words cooperate, communicate--transforming the intangible, the abstract into intelligible images, associations, and ultimately, knowledge.
In his role as poet laureate for the past ten years, Motion has worked to make poetry more widely available to the general public free of charge (through his online archiving of poets reading their work at The Poetry Archive) and has tried to demystify verse, saying simply, "The best poems are those which speak to us about the important things in our lives in a way that we never forget. Any heavier definition than that begins to collapse under its own weight and exclude many forms of poetry." Motion's own lyrical poems, many written in formal meter and rhyme, speak to usclearly and memorably, meeting his own challenge with flying colors.
