The Guest from the Future

by Jon Stallworthy

It represents what Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Laureate in literature, called art's power of redress. Stallworthy's poems evoke women survivors; the poet Anna Akhmatova; the painter Francoise Cilot, Picasso's lover; a survivor of the siege of Stalingrad; and a woman who escaped war torn Poland, carrying in her bedding-roll a coverlet she was embroidering for her fiance and herself. This refugee's story bears a curious inverse relationship with that of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393316939
• ISBN13: 9780393316933
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"