The Italian Visitor

The Italian Visitor

Grey Gowrie

Språken
FörlagCarcanet Poetry
ISBN9781847777775

From the opening poem, an extended elegy for the Cold War's ambivalent mix of irresponsibility and prosperity, to a concluding short memoir of Robert Lowell, The Italian Visitor is a book about memory. The title sequence, an account of a 1940s' childhood, unravels time by placing Grey Gowrie's eight