Fortepan

Poems that take as their starting point old photographs found online. The people caught in them, held still for ever, begin to move and speak, and forgotten stories return: tragic monologues, descriptions of pictures, the shadows of objects, exact dates and fragments of places. The voice lets each story scatter and then pulls it back together, in a rhythm that moves between the chant of a ballad and a flat, numbed sense of being.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

72 pages in the original

First published

2015 by Magvető

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9789631432558 (original)