Double
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Author
Publication
1994 - Bloodaxe, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Language
English
Word Count
16,000 words, Guess
Page Count
64 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18075318M
- ISBN-101852242736
- OCLC Control Number30513283
- OCLC Control Numberdouble0000will
- Library of Congress Control Number94035743
and 2 more
- LibraryThing3064048
- Goodreads2700877
Classifications
- DDC821.914
- LCCPR6073.I43223 D6 1994
Description
John Hartley Williams is an English poet marooned in Berlin, where he has lived for nearly 20 years, through times of great upheaval and change. The streets he knew in West Berlin used to peter out in a dead arena of cobbles and waste ground blanked off by the Wall. 'Real-existing socialism', whichever way you pointed, was druben - over there. The poems in Double are located somewhere in between. As the dilapidation of one half of the city vanishes, Williams is troubled by "normalisation". All traces of an alternative way of doing things are being erased. The poems reflect the presence of that invisible stranger on the other side of the Wall, whose presence could always be felt, even if symbolically denied. A denial now becoming fact. He connects his adopted home with the London of his childhood and youth, and with what a city means on a personal level, through poems about love, death and memories of an earlier time, through memory within memory, desire within desire.
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