Tripping Daylight
Published on 15. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-84861-234-1 (ISBN)
Description
One might be looking at a game of consequences with serially switched pronouns ...or a stranger-than-life biography where missed moves and alternatives compete with the actualite for attention. Nothing here, however, is blessed by what is commonly understood as 'finality', realised or imagined. Tripping Daylight, Peter Dent's latest collection, finds its unlikely protagonist connecting (or attempting to connect) the experiences of a 'life lived' with a welter of convenient 'truths'-known or suspected-and which may be seen as arguable every step of the way. Shared words and wisdom, occasioned by this singular work, allow both for the making of an expansive public field and the leaving of private tracks.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations; black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
152 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-234-1 (9781848612341)
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Peter Dent was born in Forest Gate, London, but has spent most of his life in Surrey and Devon. A teacher for twenty years, he is now retired, devoting the greater part of his time to writing. He was the editor/publisher of Interim Press from 1975 to 1987, wghere he published numerous volumes of poetry and essays on such writers as George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Thomas A. Clark and Allen Upward. With others he has translated from the Sanskrit and Urdu. His won work, both poetry and prose-poetry, has been published widely in magazines and anthologies both in Britain and abroad.