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by Oli Hazzard (Author)
A brilliantly inventive book of poems from a fierce poetic voice, whose work John Ashbery called "exciting, necessary, and new."
Sleepers Awake, Oli Hazzard's third collection, emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract "the ore / from boredom," as memory --personal, familial, social, historical--and the collective memory of poetry itself are wrenched out of shape by dramatic disruptions in rhythm, space, and scale. The sadness and pain of forgetting is here too, alongside its unexpected forms of potential.
Author Biography
Oli Hazzard is the author of two books of poems, Between Two Windows and Blotter; a book of literary criticism, John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange: The Minor Eras; and a novel, Lorem Ipsum. He lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of St. Andrews.
