The Atlantic Tunnel: Selected Poems

by Paul Farley

Some similes act like heat shields for re-entry to reality: a tramp in flames on the floor. We can say Flame on to invoke the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four. We can switch to art and imagine Dali at this latitude doing CCTV surrealism. We could compare him to a protest monk sat up the way he is. --From "Tramp in Flames" With his free-flowing and musical takes on popular and hidden culture, Paul Farley has emerged in the last decade as one of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865479178
• ISBN13: 9780865479173
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.4"