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Antler

Antler

Antler

John Clegg

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Editorial:
Salt Publishing
Año de edición:
2013
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9781844719648
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Pared-down, playful and often very funny, Clegg’s poetry keeps faith with what is tactile and tangible (moss, leather, bone), distilling plainspoken diction, luminous imagery and a unique worldview into lines which remain in the head for a long while after the book has been closed.

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