The Space of Joy

by John Fuller

The Space of Joy is a sequence of poems that recounts the endless desire for love (and the failures and compromises that accompany that desire) in a number of writers and musicians who fatally prioritise their art. It begins with Petrarch, who created great lyric poetry out of an impossible infatuation, and moves through Coleridge's self-induced guilt within domestic happiness, Matthew Arnold's disbelief in mutual love, Brahm's self-delusion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0701181109
• ISBN13: 9780701181109
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Random House (UK)
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"