(strange as that sounds…)
“For Henry, having two countries meant staged risk, and privacy. For Oscar, having the world meant everything bet on the one toss. In a 20’s Modernist trope, this sequence hints at big unanalysed scandals by almost making them cockney rhyming slang: Evans-Bush shows us Two Great Late Victorians through the prism of the 1920s, even while she looks back 90 years at the Modernists, in a double manoeuvre.
In literary judgment we think about sex, but in our own lives we think about love. An equal attention to Henry James and Oscar Wilde at once can illuminate both. Henry remains, at this stage, Evans-Bush’s object of quiet love: touchstone to a vision of love that is the secret, and the secret joy of these poems.”
–Ira Lightman
Published 14 January by Rack Press.
5 Comments
November 11, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Cool!
November 12, 2009 at 12:02 am
Pre-ordered! Now all I have to is twiddle my thumbs until 22 January.
November 12, 2009 at 11:13 am
Congratulations, Katy. I’m off to reorder it now.
November 12, 2009 at 11:19 am
Sue, I hope you mean PRE-order!
Anyway, there will be a launch, on January 14th, so if you want to save your £4 you could buy it there. (Or reorder it, indeed…)
Charles, they come in numbered editions and I hope you get number 1. First off the press!
November 12, 2009 at 11:21 am
Well, I hope so too, but any number will be just fine!
Hmm. January 14th…