The Marble Fly |
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| Author:
| McKendrick, Jamie |
| Series title: | The ^AOxford Poets Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-283256-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1997 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $11.95 |
Book Description:
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In the title poem of Jamie McKendrick's third collection, a fly carved on a Pompeian wall-relief offers an image of the momentary made permanent, of movement and stasis. Many forms of transport - a chimerical hearse, a ten-gun brig, a bike, a banana boat - take these poems to unexpected destinations. The journeys they chart explore the overlap between natural and human histories, and the instability and oddness of our attempts to make sense of them.
In the title poem of Jamie McKendrick's third collection, a fly carved on a Pompeian wall-relief offers an image of the momentary made permanent, of movement and stasis. Many forms of transport - a chimerical hearse, a ten-gun brig, a bike, a banana boat - take these poems to unexpected destinations. The journeys they chart explore the overlap between natural and human histories, and the instability and oddness of our attempts to make sense of them.