Sentenced to Life: Poems

by Clive James

Book Overview

In this new collection of technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems (Spectator)--including Japanese Maple, which was published in The New Yorker to great acclaim--Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which--for all their grappling with death and his current illness--are primarily a celebration of what is treasurable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631491725
• ISBN13: 9781631491726
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"