The Age of Cardboard and String
From AwardAnnals
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| Author(s) | Charles Boyle |
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| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
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| A number of poems in this new collection take their cue from Stendhal, whose characteristic blend of artfulness and candour—particularly evident in his unreliable memoirs—is sustained throughout the book. In material ranging form intimate narratives to social commentary. Boyle takes self-deception, mixed motives and honest misunderstandings as the norms of human behaviour, and delights in the comedy of errors that results. | |
A number of poems in this new collection take their cue from Stendhal, whose characteristic blend of artfulness and candour—particularly evident in his unreliable memoirs—is sustained throughout the book. In material ranging form intimate narratives to social commentary. Boyle takes self-deception, mixed motives and honest misunderstandings as the norms of human behaviour, and delights in the comedy of errors that results.
