Children in Exile

by Fenton, James

• ISBN13: 9780374524067
• ISBN10: 0374524068
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-07-01
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Summary

Fenton's work is elegant, highly finished, reticent, witty. Disturbing and deeply affecting, "Children in Exile remains an exhilarating and memorable performance.

Author Biography

James Fenton is a poet and critic. From 1994 to 1999 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. He writes about poetry, art history, and gardening for the New York Review of Books.

Table of Contents

A German Requiem	p. 9
Cambodia	p. 23
In a Notebook	p. 24
Dead Soldiers	p. 26
Lines for Translation into Any Language	p. 29
Children in Exile	p. 30
Wind	p. 40
Prison Island	p. 41
Nest of Vampires	p. 44
A Vacant Possession	p. 47
Vucceria	p. 50
Chosun	p. 51
The Skip	p. 55
A Staffordshire Murderer	p. 58
Letter to John Fuller	p. 63
Exempla (1968-1970)
Exempla 1-12	p. 73
The Pitt-Rivers Museum	p. 81
The Fruit-Grower in War-time	p. 85
South Parks Road	p. 89
Terminal Moraine	p. 92
The Empire of the Senseless
The Kingfisher's Boxing Gloves	p. 96
Lullaby for a Summer Recess	p. 100
The Wild Ones	p. 101
Lollipops of the Pomeranian Baroque	p. 102
This Octopus Exploits Women	p. 103
Tauler	p. 104
God, A Poem	p. 105
Songs
Nothing	p. 108
The Song That Sounds Like This	p. 109
The Killer Snails	p. 110
Notes and Acknowledgements	p. 111
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