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Lake Shore Drive

Part of the SALT MODERN POETS series
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"Lake Shore Drive" is John Wilkinson's most public, openly political and expansive book.

By contrast with the baroque architectonics of his last Salt book, "Contrivances", "Lake Shore Drive" is wide-ranging and variously vernacular in both scope and form, en route between New York City, Damascus, East London and the Welsh, Cornish and Indiana shorelines.

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Salt Publishing
1844712559 / 9781844712557
Paperback / softback
821.914
15/07/2006
United Kingdom
English
168 p.
22 cm
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An extraordinary new collection from leading British modernist writing at the height of his powers. Returning to a more accessible and electrifying lyric impulse, Wilkinson explores themes of war, unity and social cohesion with devastating effect. Wilkinson's sensual, Baroque language examines forms of cultural excess in which agency and political responsibility and held perfectly in balance.
An extraordinary new collection from leading British modernist writing at the height of his powers. Returning to a more accessible and electrifying lyric impulse, Wilkinson explores themes of war, unity and social cohesion with devastating effect. Wilkinson's sensual, Baroque language examines forms of cultural excess in which agency and political responsibility and held perfectly in balance. DCF Poetry by individual poets