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Overlook: Poems
Years in the making, Stephen Sandy's Overlook gathers themes and occasions that have intrigued the poet throughout his career. This powerful collection explores love and death, success and failure, war and disaster, with appropriate measures of wit and grief. Meditations on life as a game to be completed rather than won juxtapose scenes of individuals confronting the challenges that occur in any life. Sandy balances these texts with poems elegiac in tone, written for friends and family, as in lyrics for his father, and in the masterly "As Smoke Robes Fire." Poems about art and artists, ranging from Nicolas Poussin and John Constable to Francis Bacon and Philip Guston, round out the collection.
Profound and rewarding, Overlook showcases the gifts of a master poet at the height of his powers.
Profound and rewarding, Overlook showcases the gifts of a master poet at the height of his powers.
96 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2010
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August 31, 2020
The poems aren't bad per se, I personally just couldn't get into them and found them all pretty boring. A few I thought were alright, but all in all I was disappointed. Maybe I was expecting something different? I'm sure others could get a lot out of these poems, I think you just have to be the right, specific audience.
September 24, 2011
I honestly feel quite bad for giving this book such a low review.
The poet is obviously quite talented.
It just was one of those collections that didn't "click" with me.
I think at a quieter point in my life, I will have to give it anoer try.
The poet is obviously quite talented.
It just was one of those collections that didn't "click" with me.
I think at a quieter point in my life, I will have to give it anoer try.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews