Playing with Fire
Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

POETRY

144 Pages, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2

Formats: Paperback, ebook: EPUB, Mobipocket, ebook: PDF

Paperback, $17.95 (US $17.95) (CA $24.95)

Publication Date: April 2006

ISBN 9781857547900

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Overview

A dazzling blend of intellectualism and eroticism, this poetry collection employs sumptuous, sensory language to explore a wide range of subjects—including a blood-drinking Tibetan deity, lemons in Robert Graves' garden, and an East London strip club. By boldly traversing the boundary between the erotic and the sexual, these love poems are both passionate and strikingly original.

Reviews

"[He has a] lyric voice that handles images well, that distinguishes—as few poets do—the erotic from the sexual, that moves language in and out of metaphor with skill and grace." —Eavan Boland, author, Against Love Poetry and Outside History

"Grevel Lindop celebrates a cosmic harmony that upholds the greatest and the least parts of the universe. . . . His perspectives open on the stories within stories, where what is 'real' and what is illusory are woven together." —Kathleen Raine, author, Selected Poems and W. B. Yeats & the Learning of the Imagination

Author Biography

Grevel Lindop is the author of five collections of poetry, including Fools' Paradise and Tourists. He is a frequent contributor to PN Review, Poetry London, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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