Portrait of My Father in an English Landscape

by George Szirtes

The poems in Portrait of my Father in an English Landscape are about childhood, language, and growing up in a foreign country, England. George Szirtes writes particularly about his own father, captured in images, anecdotes, and sudden, vivid fragmentary stories. The bravura formal structure of these remarkable sequences continues Szirtes's tradition of writing long poem sequences, as well as linked sonnets, and contributes to his personal history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192880918
• ISBN13: 9780192880918
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.7"