Salvage At Twilight

by Dan Burt

Overview

The poet - a man of the world in the widest sense - reflects and in reflection relives the intense experiences that shaped him and that have shaped our modern world. Salvage at Twilight ends with 'Deposition', a harrowing elegy in five parts: the beloved endures 'her Nile of pain'; the lover attends as she is treated, the last scene postponed until the two selves are quite differently refined. His editor has written, 'Dan Burt's poetry, like his prose, explores themes unusual in contemporary literature, using a language that is precise, nuanced and mordant. And he risks traditional forms, his sonnets and quatrains mastered and masterful.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784107925
Publisher:	Carcanet Press, Limited
Publication date:	12/21/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	425 KB

About the Author

Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia, read English at St John's College, Cambridge and attended Yale Law School. A lawyer and businessman, his poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry Review, PN Review, TLS, The Financial Times, The New Statesman, The Sunday Times, Granta, Commonweal, Clutag Five Poems Series, The Forward Book of Poetry (best poems of 2013), The Poetry of Sex (Penguin Anthology), The Institute News Letter (Institute for Advanced Study), Courtauld News, and New Poetries V (2011) amongst others. Two chapbooks, Searched For Text (2008) and Certain Windows (2011) were published by Lintott/Carcanet Press, as well as a collaboration, Cold Eye, with artist Paul Hodgson (Marlborough Graphics/Lintott Press, 2010). Carcanet published We Look Like This, a collected edition of his poetry and prose, in May 2012. Notting Hill Editions published the UK edition of his memoir, You Think It Strange, in 2014, and Overlook Press the US edition in 2015. The Poetry Archive has twice recorded him reading his work. He lives and writes in London and St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he is an Honorary Fellow.

Table of Contents

Slag

Thief 11

Primer 12

Impostor Syndrome 13

Traitor 14

Worship 15

Late Self Portrait 16

Practice

Texaco Saturday Afternoon Opera 19

Practice 21

Doktor Darker's Storage and Laundry 22

Singing School 23

Every Wrong Direction: Hucksters 24

Familiars 35

Heeps 36

Sum 37

Every Wrong Direction: Knaves 38

Gold Rush

Arrivals Hall, Jeddah, 1976 47

Prospecting 48

Site Work 49

Departure 50

Every Wrong Direction: D. M. Burt & Associates 51

Contrasts

Matinée 67

Martha, Mary and Magdalene Retouched 68

London Contemporary 71

Bukhara 72

The Greatest Generation 73

November 9, 2016 74

Salvages

Who He Was 77

For John Crook 78

Speechless 79

Manicure 80

Homage for a Waterman 81

Lament for Grace 82

Deposition

Tumour 83

Post-Op 84

Delphi 85

Totentanz 87

Coda 88

Notes 91