Not Even This: Poetry, parenthood and living uncertainly

By: Jack Underwood

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Synopsis: 'Fatherhood arrived for me as an existential crisis within the midst of a wider global existential crisis.'In this highly original book-length lyric essay, a father and poet reflects on how his daughter's birth at a time of great global uncertainty inspired him to rediscover with fresh urgency the importance of language as a realm of 'intimacy, overlap, hope and trust'. Poetry can uniquely offer an understanding of the world which brings its complexity within reach - yet does not seek to reduce or explain that complexity away. Poetry is a form through which we might reckon with this uncertain world, learn to inhabit our precarious life more fluently and, in turn, offer what we learn to our children.From Joan of Arc to the unfathomable gravity of supermassive black holes, from metaphor to quantum mechanics, Not Even This is a moving, thought-provoking work, full of delights. Jack Underwood is open and attentive to the questions that the world and his daughter continue to present: thrilling, terrifying, fundamental.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781472156068
Related ISBNs:: 9781472156082
Publisher:: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Date of Addition:: 05/05/21
Copyrighted By:: Jack Underwood
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Biographies and Memoirs, Parenting and Family, Language Arts, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.