Sentenced to Life - by Clive James (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>There is an inevitable sadness to this moving collection. This being James, there are also moments of zinging energy and a sense of fun...James will remain in the present tense as those Japanese Maple's leaves continue to turn to flame. --Rebecca K. Morrison, <em>Independent</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this new collection of "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (<em>Spectator</em>)--including "Japanese Maple," which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> to great acclaim--Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which--for all their grappling with death and his current illness--are primarily a celebration of what is treasurable and memorable in our time here.</p><p>Again and again, James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric accomplishment but also an immensely wise one, who delights in using poetic form to bring a razor-sharp focus to his thought. Miraculously, these poems see James writing with his insight and energy not only undiminished but positively charged by his situation. The poems of <em>Sentenced to Life</em> represents a career high point from one of the greatest literary intellects of our age.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[James is] fabulously gifted, enviably well-read, generously inclusive, and always commonsensical...The book stands as a whole as a manifesto to an essential faith in the force and beauty of language, especially language wrought to a high intensity by the shaping power of the poet...If there is such a thing as a reader of genius, then Clive James is it.--John Banville "New York Review of Books"<br><br>A writer whose commanding voice contains a constant variety of color and tone.--Robert McCrum "Observer"<br><br>James's recent poems...represent the very best work James has ever done in verse.--Jason Guriel "New Republic"<br><br>Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive, [<em>Sentenced to Life</em> is] both a great pleasure and a chill in the nerves.--A. S. Byatt "Guardian"<br>
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