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"There is an inevitable sadness to this moving collection. This being James, there are also moments of zinging energy and a sense of fun...James will remain in the present tense as those Japanese Maple's leaves continue to turn to flame." ―Rebecca K. Morrison, Independent
In this new collection of "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (Spectator)―including "Japanese Maple," which was published in The New Yorker to great acclaim―Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which―for all their grappling with death and his current illness―are primarily a celebration of what is treasurable and memorable in our time here.
Again and again, James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric accomplishment but also an immensely wise one, who delights in using poetic form to bring a razor-sharp focus to his thought. Miraculously, these poems see James writing with his insight and energy not only undiminished but positively charged by his situation. The poems of Sentenced to Life represents a career high point from one of the greatest literary intellects of our age.
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Born in Australia, Clive James lives in Cambridge, England. He is the author of Unreliable Memoirs; a volume of selected poems, Opal Sunset; the best-selling Cultural Amnesia; and the translator of The Divine Comedy by Dante. He has written for the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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“[James is] fabulously gifted, enviably well-read, generously inclusive, and always commonsensical...The book stands as a whole as a manifesto to an essential faith in the force and beauty of language, especially language wrought to a high intensity by the shaping power of the poet...If there is such a thing as a reader of genius, then Clive James is it.”
- John Banville, New York Review of Books
“Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive, [Sentenced to Life is] both a great pleasure and a chill in the nerves.”
- A. S. Byatt, Guardian
“A writer whose commanding voice contains a constant variety of color and tone.”
- Robert McCrum, Observer
“James's recent poems...represent the very best work James has ever done in verse.”
- Jason Guriel, New Republic
- John Banville, New York Review of Books
“Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive, [Sentenced to Life is] both a great pleasure and a chill in the nerves.”
- A. S. Byatt, Guardian
“A writer whose commanding voice contains a constant variety of color and tone.”
- Robert McCrum, Observer
“James's recent poems...represent the very best work James has ever done in verse.”
- Jason Guriel, New Republic
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- PublisherLondon: Picador 2015.
- Publication date2016
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- ISBN 13 9781447284055
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