
Boys at Twilight
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The poems in this volume were selected by Glyn Maxwell from TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON (published in 1990, when he was twenty-eight), OUT OF THE RAIN (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize), and REST FOR THE WICKED. Maxwell "is a formalist," wrote Robert McIlwaine about his first book, "but . . . he is an outspoken anti-elitist social poet. His strenuous well-wrought poems . . . come from an English tradition of technical virtuosity with plain speech." The Boys at Twilight shows, sometimes comically, men at war, boys at play, boys grown up, men overreaching and reverting. Other concerns are the dangers of authority and mob psychology, the absurdities of stardom and consumerism, the heroism of the decent, and the wisdom of doubt. His subjects range from biblical stories to the "Tale of the Chocolate Egg," which is a long, "pitch-perfect description of a bored young man's growing obsession with a new kind of candy" (Adam Kirsch, New Republic). Always in his work, "Maxwell knows that to see into is not necessarily to see through . . . His virtuosity has a ballast of sobriety" (Poetry Book Society).
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Front
- from TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON
- My Turn
- Tale of the Mayor's Son
- Drive to the Seashore
- Flood Before and After
- The Albatross Revolution
- Mandate on an Eighth of May
- The Pursuit
- Mild Citizen
- The High Achievers
- Wasp
- The End of the Weekend
- A Whitsun
- Just Like Us
- Tale of a Chocolate Egg
- Farm Close
- from OUT OF THE RAIN
- Errand Boy
- The Fires by the River
- EC3
- The Eater
- The Uninvited
- Recollection of a Meal
- Helene and Heloise
- We Billion Cheered
- The Hang of It
- Sport Story of a Winner
- Dream but a Door
- Desire of the Blossom
- Rare Chat with the Red Squirrel
- Plaint of the Elder Princes
- Rumpelstiltskin
- One and Another Go Home
- La Brea
- Nativity
- War Hero
- And Leaves Astonishing
- Didymus the Seated
- Springs of Simon Peter
- Thief on the Cross
- Out of the Rain
- from REST FOR THE WICKED
- Peter Brook
- The Ginger-Haired in Heaven
- Birth Day
- The Wish
- Garden City Quatrains
- As You Walk Out One Morning
- Love Made Yeah
- Either
- The Boys and Girls of There
- The Boys at Twilight
- Song of Our Man
- Growing Men
- Younger Than That Now
- The Stakes
- The Furthest West
- Watching Over
- Lust
- Conquest
- The Sentence
- The Night Is Young
- If You Haven't Got a Shilling
- Curse on a Child
- Don't Waste Your Breath
- Museum
- Sulk
- The Margit-Isle
- The Great Detectives
- The Devil at War
- The Altered Slightly
- Yellow Plates
- The Sarajevo Zoo
- A Force That Ate Itself
- The People's Cinema
- The Allies
- The Horses' Mouths
- Stargazing
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