Bruce Beaver (1928–2004)
Autor von Bruce Beaver: New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 (UQP poetry)
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Wissenswertes
- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Beaver, Bruce
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Beaver, Bruce Victor
- Geburtstag
- 1928-02-14
- Todestag
- 2004-02-17
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Australia
- Geburtsort
- Manly, New South Wales, Australia
- Sterbeort
- Manly, New South Wales, Australia
- Wohnorte
- Norfolk Island, Australia
New Zealand - Ausbildung
- Sydney Boys' High School
- Berufe
- poet
fruit-picker
reviewer
freelance journalist
novelist - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Patrick White Award (1982)
Mitglieder
Rezensionen
Auszeichnungen
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 18
- Mitglieder
- 71
- Beliebtheit
- #245,552
- Bewertung
- 3.8
- Rezensionen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 19
There are 20 poems in this book, ranging from 40 lines to about four time that long. In all of them the poet has some kind of dialogue with death. Death may be a personification of his sense of his own mortality, or of mortality in general, or something less easily defined. There is painful introspection, exploration of the poet’s less than admirable past, reflections on his experiences with sex and religion, meditations on art and ethics, one splendid love poem, three elegies of sorts (for Mao Zse Dong and the poets Neftali Reyes and Anne Sexton). I love the way he imbues conversational language with a particular, personal music.… (mehr)