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Elaine Feinstein

• Herausgeber: Carcanet Poetry
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Elaine Feinstein has always written with most intensity about people. In this book, she remembers friends she has loved, writers she has known and literary figures from the past. She writes of the Russian poet Bella Akhmadulina with tender admiration; the East End poet Emanuel Litvinoff, at work in his Bloomsbury flat; and Masha Enzensberger, who brought Feinstein into the world of Marina Tsvetaeva. As she imagines Raymond Chandler, Isaac Rosenberg or Billie Holiday her words about them say things about herself. In the closing poem, Death and the Lemon Tree', she finds a compelling image for the privilege of continuing to write into old age.

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ELAINE FEINSTEIN

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For Emma Tennant

Contents

Title PageDedicationAcknowledgementsPortraitsCourting DangerApril Fools’ DayLife Class: A SketchEmanuelThe GambleHomesicknessDickens Considers FaginThe Irony of Wisłava SzymborskaLuftmenschDizzy in WestminsterA Charred SlipperSleepless NightsDreaming Raymond ChandlerMarina’s Ghost Visits AkhmatovaA Yorkshireman in ProvenceSiegfried Sassoon and the Wish to BelongThe Marriage of Thomas and Jane CarlyleDr Who in Las VegasThe Generation of Gabriela MistralFlairDown and OutA Young Wife Listens to PiafBillie Holiday in Chalcot GardensThe Undercover RiderBurning BrightOld MuseImmortal in Kensal RiseVoiceOn Not Dying YoungSelf-Portrait in the Olympic SummerSt Lucy’s DayAn Oxford BeautyA Video of Habima at the Globe (2012)LoveMy Polish Cleaner’s VersionDeath and the Lemon TreeDeath and the Lemon Tree (1–4)About the AuthorAlso by Elaine Feinstein from Carcanet PressCopyright

Acknowledgements

Some of these poems have appeared in Acumen, The Guardian, The Jewish Quarterly, The New Humanist, PN Review, Poem, Poetry London, Poetry Review, The Spectator, and several anthologies, including 1914: Poetry Remembers and Jubilee Lines, both edited by Carol Ann Duffy; also A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens, edited by Peter Robinson. Earlier versions of six poems which clearly belonged in this book have appeared in other collections.

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