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008			110830s1987 nyu 000 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aPR6058.A6943 _bA6 1987
082	0	0	_a821 HAR
100	1		_aHarrison, Tony _d, 1937-
240	1	0	_aPoems. Selections.
245	1	0	_aSelected poems _c/ Tony Harrison
250			_a2nd ed
260			_aLondon _b: Penguin Books _c, c1987.
300			_a249 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aAt last Americans may read one of England's foremost contemporary poets. Harrison's work derives its power from the conflict between his working class roots and classical education. His style is distinguished by a penchant for rhyme that at its best is dazzling but at times merely facile. His early work features globe-trotting travelogue and flamboyant satyriasis; his in-progress sonnet-cycle, ``From the School of Eloquence,'' is more substantial. In it he pays tribute to English working class history and his own upbringing, producing several elegiac pieces for his mother and father that form the most mature, serious, and persuasive segment of his work: ``I believe life ends with death, and that is all./ You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,/ in my new black leather phone book there's your name/ and the disconnected number I still call.''
650		4	_aPoetry, English
942			_cMO
999			_c238055 _d238055