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The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990 - 1995
Contributor(s): Maxwell, Glyn (Author)

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ISBN: 0618064141     ISBN-13: 9780618064144
Publisher: Ecco Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: October 2000
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Annotation: The poems in this volume were selected by Glyn Maxwell from TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON (published in 1990, when he was twenty-eight), OUT OF THE RAIN (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize), and REST FOR THE WICKED. Maxwell "is a formalist," wrote Robert McIlwaine about his first book, "but . . . he is an outspoken anti-elitist social poet. His strenuous well-wrought poems . . . come from an English tradition of technical virtuosity with plain speech." The Boys at Twilight shows, sometimes comically, men at war, boys at play, boys grown up, men overreaching and reverting. Other concerns are the dangers of authority and mob psychology, the absurdities of stardom and consumerism, the heroism of the decent, and the wisdom of doubt. His subjects range from biblical stories to the "Tale of the Chocolate Egg," which is a long, "pitch-perfect description of a bored young man's growing obsession with a new kind of candy" (Adam Kirsch, New Republic). Always in his work, "Maxwell knows that to see into is not necessarily to see through . . . His virtuosity has a ballast of sobriety" (Poetry Book Society).
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | American - Asian American
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
Dewey: 821.914
LCCN: 00061325
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.52" W x 8.22" L (0.40 lbs) 160 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
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Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2000 pg. 1397
Publishers Weekly 09/18/2000 pg. 106
New York Times 11/05/2000 pg. 26
Library Journal 11/15/2000 pg. 73
New York Times 12/03/2000 pg. 67
Publishers Weekly 09/15/2000
 
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Contributor Bio(s): Maxwell, Glyn: - Glyn Maxwell is the author of several books of poetry, including The Sugar Mile. He is also a dramatist whose plays have been staged in New York, Edinburgh, and London. Among other honors, he has won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the E. M. Forster Prize. He was the poetry editor of the New Republic from 2001 to 2007.
 
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