The Casual Perfect

by Lavinia Greenlaw

Book Overview

If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the book's presiding spirits, with her insistence on the provisional, on the moment in which perception is formed, on landscape as action rather than description. The Casual Perfect continues Lavinia Greenlaw's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571260284
• ISBN13: 9780571260287
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 64 Pages