Full Description
Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966, and her retrospective, New & Collected Poems, in 2010. Her poems 'give us truly new visions of usual and mysterious events' (A.S. Byatt). Each is a balancing act between thought and feeling, revealing otherness within the everyday, often measuring subtle shifts in relationships between women and men. Her poems 'give us truly new visions of usual and mysterious events' (A.S. Byatt). Each is a balancing act between thought and feeling, revealing otherness within the everyday, often measuring subtle shifts in relationships between women and men. She has always drawn on a wide range of subject-matter, yet the arc of her attention has shifted in her later work, the meaning and effect of the passage of time becoming more central and fascinating as she ages. Written during her 80s, the poems of Somewhere Else Entirely are shadowed by the death of her husband Alan Sillitoe. The book also includes several short pieces of prose, memoirs of childhood years spent in the USA: firstly, those from zero to five years old, then a group about the ages between 10 and 15, during the Second World War, when their mother took her and her brother Harry back to their American birthplace.
Contents
11 Meditations on Yellow
12 Late Spring Evening in the Suburbs
14 The Ides of March
16 The Motorway
17 In the Square
17 i Snowdrops
18 ii The Choice
19 Oxygen Mask
20 Alan's Jacket
21 Somewhere Else Entirely
22 A Meeting with My Dead
23 Froth
24 Sand
25 Torsion
26 Numinous
27 Magic
28 Empty Space
29 Regret
30 Wonderful
31 The Red Shirt
32 Blind Love
33 Inside a Yellow Laburnum Tent...
34 Chestnut in Spring
35 Chestnut
36 The Playground
37 Ladbroke Square Notes
38 The Jungle
39 The Log
40 Westward Streaming Cloud
41 Venus
42 Coquillage
43 Hunter's Moon
44 At the Allotment
45 Ars Anatomica
46 Aloe
47 World Events
48 Time and Function
49 Timeless Waters
50 Continuation
51 The Next Station
52 Petulant
53 The Poet's Funeral
54 Daisy
55 Thought-forms
56 Underground
57 At Baker Street Underground Station
58 Elementary
59 A Republican Tale
60 Floor-walker
62 Male and Female Created He Them
63 What Ails Thee, Santa?
64 Madame Lavitte
65 Three Men
68 ...only then
69 Them
70 The Mother
71 The Difference
72 Art and Action
73 New Year Wish
77 A Living Creature
78 Language
79 Tomato
81 The Grand Concourse
83 Tightrope Walkers
85 Marranos
87 My First Library
90 The Scratch
91 Goldenrod
93 The Dove Dress
95 Rover
98 The Graduation Dress
100 Malted Milk
