The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet
by Alice Oswald (Editor)
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This radical anthology is concerned with what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', our human planet. The book is dedicated to the rake, an age-old implement which connects the earth to our hands, and the landscape with the sky. Alice Oswald has chosen poems which lie along the line of encounter between the personal and the natural world - from work poems at one end of the scale (songs for lowering anchors, or for cutting cotton) to metamorphic poems in which, at the other show more extreme, the human has crossed entirely over into non-human. In between, there are any number of portraits of the intermediate state in which most of us spend our lives. Including poems by William Barnes, John Clare, Robert Frost, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Ashbery and many others, this anthology engages restlessly with the many-centred energies of the natural world, variously reflecting Hopkins's intuition that 'million-fuelèd, nature's bonfire burns on'. show lessTags
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Alice Oswald has won the Eric Gregory Award, the Arts Foundation Award for Poetry, the Forward Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, and the T. S. Eliot Prize. She lives in Devon, England.
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Music
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- 821.008036 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures British Poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions Collections of literary texts not limited by time period or kind of form Collections of literary texts displaying specific features or emphasizing specific subjects, for or by specific groups of people Poetry dealing with specific themes and subjects Natural and physical phenomena; mathematics
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- PN6110 .N2 .T48 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature German Poetry
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