New Light for the Old Dark Willetts Sam
New Light for the Old Dark Willetts Sam An extraordinary first collection of poems from an assured new writerDeft, economical, and wonderfully original, this is work that celebrates the peaks and…
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New Light for the Old Dark Willetts Sam
An extraordinary first collection of poems from an assured new writerDeft, economical, and wonderfully original, this is work that celebrates the peaks and troughs of a lived life, the poems' vivid clarity feeling both fresh and fully earned. In a book deeply conscious of history, one series of poems tracks his mother's escape, as a young girl, from the Nazis, in a narrative that moves from a Stuka attack on the Smolensk Road to the Krakow ghetto, the destruction of Warsaw, to Nuremberg and Nagasaki and, finally, his mother's grave. It is rare to find an unknown poet of such mature quality, and "New Light for the Old Dark" represents a brilliant dawning.
Other poems address Englishness, secular Jewishness, and the childhood pleasures of Oxfordshirean increasingly deceptive pastoral, stalked and eventually shattered by heroin, which brings a grim new existence among dealers and
Light in the Dark
Light and the Dark
Light in the Dark
New Moon With the Old
Dark Side of the Light
The Dark Light of Day
Old Law and the New Law
Nostalgia for the Light
Nostalgia for the Light
Dark Light