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4852172Kafiristanhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/kafiristan-9781922120977/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4416499/image.jpg?v=638466695477970000177203MXNGlass House BooksInStock/Ebooks/<p>Winner, 2014 IP Rolling Picks Best Poetry B N Oakman finds poetry in the ordinary, the exotic, the political and the aesthetic. No head of State or classical film is safe from his exacting eye, which yields refreshing insights about subjects we thought we already understood. A poet for the journey rather than the arrival, Oakman blends intellect, heart and imagination in sharply observed verse employing the rhythms of everyday speech with a conversational tone devoid of sentimentality. He eschews distracting detail, embellishment and pointless abstractions, to usher his readers towards closing lines frequently of startling impact. If this book has a leitmotif it might be distilled from the poetry of Antonio Machado, the great Spanish poet whose life and work are referenced here and there throughout Second Thoughts. Oakman is plainly sympathetic to Machados credo: Wayfarer, your footsteps/ are the road and nothing more./ Wayfarer, there is no road,/ the road is made by walking. Oakmans writing, recently described by a prominent critic as radically comprehensible, is a poetry of engagement which embraces a wide range of subjects political, personal, cinema, art, war always encouraging the reader to share an experience, an idea, an emotion.</p>...4605326Kafiristan177203https://www.gandhi.com.mx/kafiristan-9781922120977/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4416499/image.jpg?v=638466695477970000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781922120977_W3siaWQiOiJjN2MwM2MwNS1lNDljLTRmNDAtYmFmMy0yZTM2OWM3N2Q5MDciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIwMywiZGlzY291bnQiOjI2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE3NywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMDQtMDlUMTg6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781922120977_<p>Winner, 2014 IP Rolling Picks Best Poetry B N Oakman finds poetry in the ordinary, the exotic, the political and the aesthetic. No head of State or classical film is safe from his exacting eye, which yields refreshing insights about subjects we thought we already understood. A poet for the journey rather than the arrival, Oakman blends intellect, heart and imagination in sharply observed verse employing the rhythms of everyday speech with a conversational tone devoid of sentimentality. He eschews distracting detail, embellishment and pointless abstractions, to usher his readers towards closing lines frequently of startling impact. If this book has a leitmotif it might be distilled from the poetry of Antonio Machado, the great Spanish poet whose life and work are referenced here and there throughout Second Thoughts. Oakman is plainly sympathetic to Machados credo: Wayfarer, your footsteps/ are the road and nothing more./ Wayfarer, there is no road,/ the road is made by walking. Oakmans writing, recently described by a prominent critic as radically comprehensible, is a poetry of engagement which embraces a wide range of subjects political, personal, cinema, art, war always encouraging the reader to share an experience, an idea, an emotion.</p>...9781922120977_Glass House Bookslibro_electonico_9781922120977_9781922120977Ross HowardInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ebooks2go-epub-06415570-3b64-4379-b5da-e73bb1c9572d.epub2024-03-18T00:00:00+00:00Glass House Books