Terrific Melancholy

by Roddy Lumsden

Roddy Lumsden's Terrific Melancholy is a book of changes, physical and emotional. It begins with a diverse sequence on that most dubious and folkloric of changes, rebirth into a new life, exploring our history's advances - changeless, changeful. Meanwhile, in the lengthy title-poem, an actor's reluctant crush on a younger colleague leads him to look back on life from middle age, while the poet himself does the same during travels in the USA. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852249080
• ISBN13: 9781852249083
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"