The Meanest Flower
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
185754868X
ISBN-13
9781857548686
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 26th, 2007
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
110 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 13.70 x 0.70 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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Inspired by Shakespeare's songs, the short poems of Emily Dickinson, and Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems, this collection of songlike poetry is based on the ubiquitous spread of weeds - like the shallow rooting plants, small poems can grow anywhere. It demonstrates a mastery of traditional forms and experiments with the Ghazal, an ancient Persian form.
Wordsworth's 'meanest flower that blows' suggested to him 'thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears'. The lyrics, elegies, songs and ghazals in Mimi Khalvati's new book pay attention to things the imagination generally disregards, an attention that is concentrated, intense and unapologetically Romantic. Hers is the true voice of feeling, undeflected by irony or self-deprecation. There is rapture in these poems as well as a tragic sense: nature, childhood, motherhood and family relationships all have a double valency, a give and take, to which Khalvati witnesses with a feeling sharpened by love and grief.
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