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John Wilkinson Lake Shore Drive
Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: John Wilkinson was born in London and grew up in Cornwall and Devon. He teaches at the University of Notre Dame, having worked in mental health services in the UK for three decades. He has published five previous volumes of poetry, including Proud Flesh (1986), Flung Clear (1994), and Contrivances (2003). A collection of criticism, The Lyric Touch, was published by Salt in 2007. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781844712557 ISBN-10: 1844712559 ISBN-13: 9781844712557 Author: John Wilkinson Title: Lake Shore Drive Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 15-Jul-06 Extent: 168pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 10 mm Weight: 252 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 10.99 Price: USD 17.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£10.99~~ £8.79 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$16.95~~ $13.56	Short description/annotation: Lake Shore Drive is John Wilkinson's most public, openly political and expansive book. By contrast with the baroque architectonics of his last Salt book, Contrivances, Lake Shore Drive is wide-ranging and variously vernacular in both scope and form, en route between New York City, Damascus, East London and the Welsh, Cornish and Indiana shorelines. Main description: Lake Shore Drive is John Wilkinson's most public, openly political and expansive book. By contrast with the baroque architectonics of his last Salt book, Contrivances, Lake Shore Drive is wide-ranging and variously vernacular in both scope and form, en route between New York City, Damascus, East London and the Welsh, Cornish and Indiana shorelines. Four poem clusters provide the book's binding force in asphalt and marram grass, protein receptor sites and the remembrance of corrupt data. Among these are interwoven short poems as compressed as expletives, and technicolor desertscapes, along with a gaggle of geese and dollops of general balm. This book will ensure that John Wilkinson's poetry becomes the resort of a much extended readership. Meet the author: Podcasts Play Architecture (632 KB) Play Cité Sportif (8.6 MB) Play Marram Nursery (2.6 MB) Play Organise, Move and Back Up (2.5 MB) Table of contents: Mercator Dateline Abacus Squared Off A Reasonable Settlement Cité Sportif Cité Sportif Cité Sportif Cité Sportif Elevation to Rear Yard Trellis Square Dance First Count Trajectory Protractor Writ Multistorey Multistorey Multistorey Multistorey Multistorey Multistorey Multistorey Visitors Architecture Scamp Stumble Claim (tlc) Electrolysis Step by Step Leda Iphigenia Iphigenia Iphigenia Iphigenia Iphigenia Iphigenia Iphigenia Iphigenia The Shoal of the Ditto Ship Thelonius Advanced Driving Organise, Move and Back Up Holidays in the Sun Spiegeleisen View From the Air Taking Flight Steam Cuisine In Camera Elementary Film Road Kill Karelian Birches Marram Riff Marram Grass Marram Mat Marram Creep Marram Scaffold Marram Clutch Marram Edging Marram Nursery Marram Chorus Marram Trench View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (452 KB) Excerpt from book: Road Kill Ice was looking a pool, or the wet road the bird crashes into, a river was looking a road of ice harrowed regularly like a freezing TV set, & it does look so. Vertically in their piling–up black fur, above – Ambitiously in that bridge closed to foot traffic & bicycles – ice cuts, ice coaxes, fans out their silvery backs’ leachate. Select one. It has a deathly look. Scroll figures in their blurred revealing sort – Select a second. A flock seeks to purify itself with its own dazzle, shucking off the outriders, peeling its penumbra so to cover all – look ice despicably would misdirect, better tread naked earth than fledge the road– metal, overglaze with an opaque, pure look the drifting channels. Pay heed. Beset by 100Mz care. Too well–matched they’re cross–dressing, huntresses or decoys. As on ice the stria drag, some pretend to wings, a snowy egret is straggling over ice furrows. Unpublished endorsement : John Wilkinson's taut, precise poems, in which lyric grace and ethical urgency move together but never comfortably mix, amount to one of the most significant bodies of work in contemporary poetry. Patrick McGuinness Review quote: Dense, angry and hard to forget, Notre Dame poet-in-residence Wilkinson's sixth book comprises an anxious denunciation of modern international systems of money and power. Just as unsettling as his earlier work (i.e., Proud Flesh), but easier to follow, these odes, series, mythic retellings and verse-portraits pursue the underbelly of capitalism, from sports arenas to airport runways, where "stuck-up integrity/ plundering the biosphere,/ rolls the thin mantle to a lump sum." His gnarled, forbidding visions are not for everyone: "a back-handed archaeology restuffs the earth," while "the ghosts of the dead drive machines/ beautifully engineered to collect the blood needed." The energy of these poems, however, is undeniable, their force unmistakable, and this may be the book through which they catch on. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Publishers Weekly Review quote: Holidays allow both the time and energy necessary for more rewarding reading. I'm looking forward to spending time with John Wilkinson's latest volume of poetry, Lake Shore Drive; his poems are lyrical, sensual, political, challenging, intelligent. Initially alluring and mysterious, they open up gradually in surprising and provocative ways. Robert Potts The Observer: Summer Books