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On Purpose
On Purpose examines the often brutal arena of human relations. Informed by both wit and a melancholic undercurrent, the book thoughtfully provokes concepts of happiness and sadness, of warring and reparation. The volume concludes with an affecting sequence about a marriage, inspired by that most influential of military treatises, The Art of War.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Jul 5th, 2010
- Pages: 76
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.40in - 0.30in - 0.25lb
- EAN: 9780393338263
- Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Laird, Nick: - Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, critic, and the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast. His many honors include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The poem "Up Late" was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Laird taught for ten years in New York City and currently lives in London and Ireland.
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Praise for this book
One of the most memorable meditations on love and marriage in contemporary literature. These 65 pages will knock you flat.--Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The dense purity of the language recalls the unflinching confessional mode of Robert Lowell and the tender Hughes of Birthday Letters.-- "Time Out London"