Gone : Satirical Poems
New & Selected
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Word Count
25,500 words, Guess
Page Count
102 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL32679749M
- ISBN-139780473360047
- ISBN-100473360047
- OCLC Control Number958927261
Classifications
- LCCPR9639.3.O43 A6 2016
Description
Gone: Satirical poems: New & Selected brings together a diverse range of metrical constructions including villanelles, sonnets, raunchy ballads and whimsical ballades. There is an invigorating, sardonic edge to Oliver's poetic, driven by an often oblique and dark humour. The ballad, for instance, is a demotic form, but it takes a particular skill (one Oliver owns to a high degree) to write with the kind of verve that enlivens rhythms both comic and colloquial. Here we have tales of murder, drunkenness and debauchery. We live in the Age of the Anthropocene. Oliver deftly lampoons a world consumed by its own narcissistic concerns.
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