- Publisher: Faber
- Year: 2018
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 224pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 223x142mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9780571338214
- Product code: 530877
The Fall at Home
New and Collected Aphorisms
Don Paterson New Hardback
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As well as writing his acclaimed poetry, Paterson has turned his attention to aphorisms, reviving this pithy literary genre in the three collections that are now brought together in a single volume. They include thought-provoking, amusing and sometimes lyrical reflections on such topics as art, writing, age, sex and death, while a final section, also in aphoristic form, focuses on the aphorism itself and some of its greatest exponents.
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Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades.
In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his two previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today's world. Moving and mischievous, canny and profound - these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times.
Consciousness is the turn the universe makes to hasten its own end.
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Agnosticism is indulged only by those who have never suffered belief.
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Poet: someone in the aphorism business for the money.
In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his two previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today's world. Moving and mischievous, canny and profound - these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times.
Consciousness is the turn the universe makes to hasten its own end.
*
Agnosticism is indulged only by those who have never suffered belief.
*
Poet: someone in the aphorism business for the money.
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