Poetry books from Malta
Recommended poetry books (3)
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
If you are into poetry here are some poetry books from Malta for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Confidential Reports by Immanuel Mifsud EN
Description:
He writes mainly here about private experience, sometimes of loss, sometimes of love, sometimes of the erotic. His poems work by suggestion and allusion and they place human experience, even the most intimate or distressing, at the heart of an impersonal physical world which provides the sensual ground of our imagining of reality. He seems to want to recall the reader always to this human status as part of physical world which existed long before us, gave rise to us, and will see us disappear. The impersonality of this world is a foil to the personal nature of human life. By juxtaposing the tw... continue
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The Play of Waves by Immanuel Mifsud EN
Description:
The Play of Waves is a collection of poems written over the period of five years by Malta s most distinguished poet, Immanuel Mifsud. It falls into six sections: the first consists of mainly lyrical poems; the second explores mental instability and the fluidity of the Self; the third is a sequence of travel poems; the fourth focuses on the dialectic of body-spirit; the fifth consists of poems about sex and sexuality; and the sixth and final section is a short cycle about Medusa. Throughout all six sections, the theme of waiting runs as a leitmotiv waiting at airports, at the psychiatric clinic... continue
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