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Four Plots for Magnets

Luke Davies

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Description:Wordsworth comes to mind with Luke Davies: 'We poets in our youth / begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end / despondency and madness.' We already know of the despair, of the decade he spent as a heroin addict, unproductive and self-destructive, an experience he later chronicled in his best-selling junkie romance, Candy, which was turned into a film starring Heath Ledger. Here, however, in Davies' first book of poems, now reissued after 31 years, we also see the gladness, bright flourishes and happy obsessions of a carefree 20-year-old . . . This is a rambling, ranting, occasionally rhapsodic, jumble of kids' stuff. Arguably the best thing in it is his new introduction to the volume, an endearing portrait of the artist as a teenage pot baron. You can see him striding along, a battered copy of Apollinaire hanging ostentatiously from a jacket pocket, the acrid funk of bong smoke still in his hair, and with the self-satisfied smirk of a young man, only 19, who has just written the line ''lately and (lightly also) we travel'' and knows it's pretty good. These plots, then, are a kind of map of the ecstasies and romances of the young poet, and if the madness to come throws a shadow of menace over our reading of his passions and wishes, there is at least the promise in them of the artist's ultimate redemption, as well as his latter-day maturity. (excerpts from Andrew Fuhrmann' review in the Fairfax press 25th August 2013)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Four Plots for Magnets. To get started finding Four Plots for Magnets, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Wordsworth comes to mind with Luke Davies: 'We poets in our youth / begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end / despondency and madness.' We already know of the despair, of the decade he spent as a heroin addict, unproductive and self-destructive, an experience he later chronicled in his best-selling junkie romance, Candy, which was turned into a film starring Heath Ledger. Here, however, in Davies' first book of poems, now reissued after 31 years, we also see the gladness, bright flourishes and happy obsessions of a carefree 20-year-old . . . This is a rambling, ranting, occasionally rhapsodic, jumble of kids' stuff. Arguably the best thing in it is his new introduction to the volume, an endearing portrait of the artist as a teenage pot baron. You can see him striding along, a battered copy of Apollinaire hanging ostentatiously from a jacket pocket, the acrid funk of bong smoke still in his hair, and with the self-satisfied smirk of a young man, only 19, who has just written the line ''lately and (lightly also) we travel'' and knows it's pretty good. These plots, then, are a kind of map of the ecstasies and romances of the young poet, and if the madness to come throws a shadow of menace over our reading of his passions and wishes, there is at least the promise in them of the artist's ultimate redemption, as well as his latter-day maturity. (excerpts from Andrew Fuhrmann' review in the Fairfax press 25th August 2013)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Four Plots for Magnets. To get started finding Four Plots for Magnets, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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