Wheel

di Michael O'Neill (Autore)

Arc Publications, 2008

Wheel, as the title suggests, is full of revolving perspectives and throughout Michael O'Neill's beautifully modulated second collection, the poetry turns on an axis of opposites: self and others, here and there, childhood and middle-age, the present and the past. In the title-poem, an encounter with a tramp calls to mind the wheel of fortune; another poem depicts a 360° shot of a figure on a bridge; in yet another an adoption application prompts memories of circling a field. Elsewhere, a boy's phantasmal arm brushes his ear as he bowls, the dead form a band of souls, a merry-go-round melts into a hoop of light, and the rings of a tree uprooted in a gale expose its age. The poems often open out on to imagined states and virtual realities, and occasionally glimpse a dimension beyond time's whirligig. Deft in its shifts of tone and formally skilful, Wheel is a powerful and affecting collection.

• Autore: Michael O'Neill
• Editore: Arc Publications
• Anno: 2008
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 88 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 145 gr.
• EAN: 9781904614791

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