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The Heart, the Border
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- GenresPoetry
64 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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Ken Smith
21 books2 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
(8) 1938-
(per Library of Congress)
also as see Ken Smith Wikipedia
(8) 1938-
(per Library of Congress)
also as see Ken Smith Wikipedia
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April 14, 2010
Imprisonment (including that of notorious killers), a sense of metaphorical prisons, "border states between the Kingdom of Pity and the Republic of Terror' childhood, love, deeply personal yet universal fear: set against a backdrop of late Thatcherist enterprise zones, 'the racket of money being made', urban decay and dissolved lives. Tender, too, and sharp imagery; contrasts between dead postcard images and the more diffuse mess of living and dying. And memory:
We are, what the rain sees, never
where we are but somewhere yesterday,
some other place we're on the way to,
anticipations turning into memory.
These events are put together backwards
from hints, shreds of evidence and hearsay,
restricted information, bias measured out
into the tight little shoes of language.
A dispossessed voice among rubbish heaps, blowing in cold winds, yet being heard here against the ruthless PR registers of dominance.
We are, what the rain sees, never
where we are but somewhere yesterday,
some other place we're on the way to,
anticipations turning into memory.
These events are put together backwards
from hints, shreds of evidence and hearsay,
restricted information, bias measured out
into the tight little shoes of language.
A dispossessed voice among rubbish heaps, blowing in cold winds, yet being heard here against the ruthless PR registers of dominance.
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