Description
Title: Sentenced to Life
Author: JAMES CLIVE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 22/09/2016
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
In his new collection of poems – several of which have already become famous before their book publication – Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which – for all their open dealings with death and illness – are primarily a celebration of what is treasurable and memorable in our time here.
Again and again, James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric accomplishment: he is also an immensely wise one, who delights in using poetic form to bring a razor-sharp focus to his thought. Miraculously, these poems see James writing with his insight and energy not only undiminished but positively charged by his situation: Sentenced to Life represents a career high point from one of the greatest literary intelligences of the age.
ISBN: 9781447284055
Weight: 110g
Dimension: 196mm X 130mm
Pages: 80