BlueStone: New and Selected Poems

by James Lasdun

Book Overview

A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive best

Two men grapple with jumper cables, trying "to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm; machinery . . ." A man on his way to see his therapist encounters a female police officer in an elevator and feels himself regressing to "the original essence, the masculine / criminal salt." A teenager is tricked into eating a spoonful of lime pickle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374535507
• ISBN13: 9780374535506
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"