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Late Self-Portrait

  • ISBN-13: 9781800175907
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Dan Burt
  • Price: AUD $47.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 24/02/2027
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 244 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In this volume of Dan Burt's previously published poetry, Late Self-Portrait selects what the poet wishes to preserve as a whole. Brought together, the collection is about two things - character, and the contrapuntal power of beauty and thought. In rhymed metered lines and traditional forms, including 26 sonnets and 3 short prose excerpts from his memoir, the author exposes roots, education, culture and heterosexual passion under the cosh of history and chance. These poems reveal, examine and judge the brutal, corrosive worlds of butchers, hit men, mobsters, and offshore charter captains. They display the greed, lies, corruption, arrogance and narcissism behind lawyers, businessmen, politicians and generals the author met throughout his time in the US, Europe and the Middle East. But they also counterpoint this dystopia with the redemptive power of the sea, art, learning and women alive and dead whose presences course just below the skin of a now old man walking to his Cambridge College set.
Dan Burt was born in 1942 in South Philadelphia. He graduated from LaSalle College a Philadelphia working class college, read English at St. John's College, Cambridge, and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1969. He was a lawyer, businessman, and Honorary Fellow of St. John's when he began to publish poetry in 2008. Carcanet Press published four books of his poetry and prose (2008 - 2019), and Marlborough Graphics/Lintott Press a poetry and photography collaboration with Paul Hodgson (2010). Notting Hill Press brought out his brief childhood memoir, You Think It Strange, in the UK (2014), as did Overlook Press in the US (2015). His work has appeared in The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The New Statesman, Commonweal, TLS, Granta, PN Review, Clutag Press, other newspapers, periodicals, and anthologies, and been featured on the BBC. He lives and writes in London, Cambridge, and Schooner Head, Maine. Dan Burt's website. Author photo taken by Paul Hodgson.
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