Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984

by James Fenton

Overview

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

"Quite simply, Fenton's poems are frightening." - The New York Times Book Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374524067
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	07/01/1994
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

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

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