And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, Poetry, British & Irish, Theory
| Author: | John Berger | ISBN: | 9780307794253 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | July 13, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Berger |
| ISBN: | 9780307794253 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | July 13, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk, and explores the meaning of home to early man and to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in our cities today. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos is a seamless fusion of the political and personal.
Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk, and explores the meaning of home to early man and to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in our cities today. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos is a seamless fusion of the political and personal.
