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The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990-1995

The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990-1995

Glyn Maxwell
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The poems in this volume were selected by Glyn Maxwell from TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON , OUT OF THE RAIN , and REST FOR THE WICKED. Maxwell “is a formalist,” wrote Robert McIlwaine about his first book, “but . . . he is an outspoken anti-elitist social poet. His strenuous well-wrought poems . . . come from an English tradition of technical virtuosity with plain speech.” The Boys at Twilight shows, sometimes comically, men at war, boys at play, boys grown up, men overreaching and reverting. Other concerns are the dangers of authority and mob psychology, the absurdities of stardom and consumerism, the heroism of the decent, and the wisdom of doubt. His subjects range from biblical stories to the “Tale of the Chocolate Egg,” which is a long, “pitch-perfect description of a bored young man’s growing obsession with a new kind of candy” . Always in his work, “Maxwell knows that to see into is not necessarily to see through . . . His virtuosity has a ballast of sobriety” .
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
Release
October 16, 2000
ISBN 13
9780618064144

The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990-1995

Glyn Maxwell
0/5 ( ratings)
The poems in this volume were selected by Glyn Maxwell from TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON , OUT OF THE RAIN , and REST FOR THE WICKED. Maxwell “is a formalist,” wrote Robert McIlwaine about his first book, “but . . . he is an outspoken anti-elitist social poet. His strenuous well-wrought poems . . . come from an English tradition of technical virtuosity with plain speech.” The Boys at Twilight shows, sometimes comically, men at war, boys at play, boys grown up, men overreaching and reverting. Other concerns are the dangers of authority and mob psychology, the absurdities of stardom and consumerism, the heroism of the decent, and the wisdom of doubt. His subjects range from biblical stories to the “Tale of the Chocolate Egg,” which is a long, “pitch-perfect description of a bored young man’s growing obsession with a new kind of candy” . Always in his work, “Maxwell knows that to see into is not necessarily to see through . . . His virtuosity has a ballast of sobriety” .
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
Release
October 16, 2000
ISBN 13
9780618064144

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