Revolution #9

By Peter Abrahams

Book Overview

With Armour , the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date and his most politically engaged. The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between the material and the immaterial, and everything which enters it kestrel and fox, moth and almond does so illuminated by its own vivid presence: the impression is less a poet honouring his subjects than uncannily inhabiting them. Elsewhere we find a poetry of lyric protest, as Kinsella scrutinizes the equivocal place of the human within this natural landscape, both as tenant and self-appointed steward. Armour is a beautifully various work, one of sharp ecological and social critique but also one of meticulous invocation and quiet astonishment, whose atmosphere will haunt the reader long after they close the book. Praise for John Kinsella: 'Kinsella's poems are a very rare feat: they are narratives of feeling. Vivid sight of landscapes, of animals, of human forms in distant light becomes insight. There is, often, the shock of the new. But somehow awaited, even familiar. Which is the homecoming of a true poet' George Steiner

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446401560
• ISBN13: 9780446401562
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

a new William Goldman

As Goldman is my all-time favourite writer, this is a high compliment indeed. I just love Abrahams' writing style. It is surpassed only by the diverse subjects he writes about. This man is an authority on many aspects of life, both high and low and he is particularly knowegable on most sports. As I am not really a sports fan, it is a mark in his favour that he is able to hold my interest here. This book also deals with campus life, about which he knows a lot and writes extremely well. His style also reminds me a lot of the late Jerome Weidman who was my (then) favourite writer. Go Peter, go, more of the same please.

Intrigue and mystery

Peter Abrahams books all have one thing in common, they make you want to read them again. (It is kind of like a movie that you want to watch again and again so you can catch the killer when he shows his hand early in the movie.) He has several story lines going at one time and when you get about halfway through the book you are compelled to finish! He is very good at depicting the female characters, even though he is male. I have read all but three books in the last month and I am ravenous for more.