Scales: Melographed by Cesar Vallejo
Cesar Vallejo and Joseph Mulligan
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First published in 1923, just before Cesar Vallejo left Peru for France, Scales combines prose poems...
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Life's journey has never been a straight line for me but a spiral, sometimes upwards, sometimes...
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Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and...
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What does it mean to be fully present in a human life? How - in the face of the carnage of war, the...
Faber & Faber Poetry Diary 2017: Coral
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The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who...
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ClareR (5674 KP) rated The Perseverence in Books
Sep 23, 2019
It made me really think about what it is to have an invisible disability too. In ‘Miami Airport’, the official says:
“You don’t look deaf?
can you prove it?”
This reminded me of the times when I would have to pull up my sons trouser leg to show his splints when challenged about queuing for the disabled toilet (please don’t do this, it’s not cool) - something he rightly wont let me do anymore, I should add!
It was really good to read this on The Pigeonhole, too, and to have some discussion about the poems. I do hope they repeat this soon. Oh, and I bought the book as well, because I really like to read poetry again (and again!). I’m a bit of a ‘poetry dipper’ 😉