內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介:John Fuller contemplates that age-old question of life versus art in this powerful, storytelling sequence of poems. Each work recounts the life of a noted author or artist and their fatal prioritization of art over love. It begins with Petrarch, who created great lyric poetry out of an impossible infatuation, and moves through Coleridge’s self-induced guilt within domestic happiness, Matthew Arnold’s disbelief in mutual love, Brahm’s self-delusion, and the complexities of Wallace Stevens’s marriage. Magnificently playful and thought-provoking, these poems present the conviction that while art creates beauty, it is life itself that must create the "space of joy" that art wishes to celebrate.
作者簡(jiǎn)介:John Fuller is one of Britain’s more high profile contemporary poets, as well as a novelist and academic. He has written 15 collections of poetry of which the last, Ghosts, was shorlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award for Poetry. He is also the author of Flying to Nowhere, which was shortlisted for the Book Prize, and W.H. Auden: A Commentary.