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Cities
Cities is a book of travels, from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tiblisi - and from the child in wartime Leicester to a 'fortune beyond any deserving / to be still here' in a London garden, eight decades later. 'Migrations', the book's opening poem, celebrates the recurring 'filigree of migration, symbiosis, assimilation'. Inheriting 'a long history of crossing borders', Feinstein explores the haunted landscape between past and present, public history and personal memory, in simple intense lyrics.
- GenresPoetry
86 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 24, 2010
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About the author
Elaine Feinstein
67 books52 followersElaine Feinstein was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as an editor for Cambridge University Press (1960-62), as Lecturer in English at Bishop's Stortford Training College (1963-6), as Assistant Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Essex (1967-70), and as a journalist.
She has contributed to many periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement, and was formerly Writer in Residence for the British Council in Singapore and Tromsø, Norway.
Of Russian-Jewish ancestry, she has been influenced by Russian writers, especially Marina Tsvetayeva and Anna Akhmatova.
She is the author of a number of plays for television and radio and several biographies, including singer Bessie Smith, writer D. H. Lawrence, Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and Anna Akhmatova.
She has contributed to many periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement, and was formerly Writer in Residence for the British Council in Singapore and Tromsø, Norway.
Of Russian-Jewish ancestry, she has been influenced by Russian writers, especially Marina Tsvetayeva and Anna Akhmatova.
She is the author of a number of plays for television and radio and several biographies, including singer Bessie Smith, writer D. H. Lawrence, Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and Anna Akhmatova.
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March 29, 2014
Cities by Elaine Feinstein is a book of travels and a memoir-through-lyrics. She describes different areas in dazzling and sensitive way where she has lived and travelled to or had a close connection.
This is a book is about her life journey through time and places, showing discovery and revelations, explores the haunted landscape between past and present.
The only question you might ask: “Are they poems or memoir notebook?”
This is a book is about her life journey through time and places, showing discovery and revelations, explores the haunted landscape between past and present.
The only question you might ask: “Are they poems or memoir notebook?”
December 17, 2022
Streets, people, places, time.
Travelling with words and imagery.
Superb.
Travelling with words and imagery.
Superb.
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