Out of Danger: Poems

by James Fenton

Book Overview

Out of Danger (1994) was Fenton's first collection of poems in ten years, and the poems in it renew and amplify the qualities of unflinching observation and freewheeling verbal play that made his earlier Children in Exile so distinctive and distinguished. The poems in this book's title sequence address the dangers of love, and the love of danger; Fenton proposes that in love, politics, and poetry alike the truth is "something you...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374524378
• ISBN13: 9780374524371
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

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james fenton does contemporary poetry in the style of antiquity. most the poems rhyme, but are often lewd, profound and ironic... we had to read it for my english class, and i just fell in love.