Tripping Over Clouds.by Burnett New 9781784107437 Fast Free Shipping**

Name: Tripping Over Clouds.by Burnett New 9781784107437 Fast Free Shipping**
Brand: Carcanet Press Ltd

Carcanet Press Ltd

Brand new product\nFree UK standard delivery 2-3 days from despatch\nTracked secure courier\nPlease check delivery times at top of listing\nBookCurl is a family bookseller - thank you for your business\n\nTripping Over Clouds issues a bold challenge to Ezra Pound\u2019s maxim to `go in fear of abstractions\u2019. Underpinning this is a re-imagining of abstraction as a prior state of possibility and potential from which the world and ourselves are constantly re-emerging \u2013 as abstraction to, not from. Both philosophical and fresh, the poetry trips off and back onto the page, like the fellrunner in its opening section: `to talk about / the pleasure principle / of falling downhill fastly\u2019. Lucy Burnett\u2019s second collection explores how we fetch up with the world in all its variety, difficulty and beauty, ranging across encounters with mountains, love, contemporary politics and visual art. Ultimately this is a poetry which asserts hope, and playfulness, as strategies for nav.