The Asylum Dance [Audiobook] download free by John Burnside
- Listen audiobook: The Asylum Dance
- Author: John Burnside
- Release date: 2009/1/16
- Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780224090056
- Rating: 8.39 of 10
- Votes: 793
- Review by: Dorian Hoy
- Review rating: 8.91 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/6
- Duration: 1H12M30S in 256 kbps (19.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-23
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: OGG, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4, WMA Lossless, MPEG-4 ALS, MP3, WAV (compression BZ, BZ2, AZW, AZW4, RAR, LZMA, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 96
- Includes a PDF summary of 7 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 5M37S (1.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry - are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. This is territory that Burnside has made his own: a domestic world threaded through with myth and longing, beyond which lies a no man's land - the 'somewhere in between' - of dusk or dawn, of mists or sudden light, where the epiphanies are.Using the framework of four long poems, 'Ports', 'Settlements', 'Fields' and 'Roads', the poet balances presence with absence; we are shown the homing instinct - felt in the blood and marrow - as a pull to refuge, simplicity, and a safe haven, while at the same time hearing the siren call from the world beyond: the thrilling expectancy of fairground or dancehall, the possibilities of the open road. With a confident open line and complete command of the language, John Burnside writes with grace, agility and profound philosophical purpose, confirming his position in the front rank of contemporary poetry.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Poetry By Individual Poets
- Download servers: ShareByLink, FreakShare, Uploaded, BitShare, 4Shared. Compressed in BZ, BZ2, AZW, AZW4, RAR, LZMA, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.60 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x9mm
- Weight: 129g
- Printed by: Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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