Deep Field

by Philip Gross

In his nineties Philip Gross's father, a wartime refugee, began to lose his several languages, first to deafness, then profound aphasia. Deeply thought as well as deeply felt, these poems reach into that gulf to find him - through recovery of histories both spoken and unspoken as well as an excavation of the spoken word itself. Readers who admired Philip Gross's subtlety and range in his T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection The Water Table will find...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0082PXCFA
• ISBN13: 9781852249199
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"