THE FALL AT HOME

Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that captur e the essence of the human condition in all its shades.In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best exa mples from his two previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today's world. Moving and mischievous, canny an d profound - these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times...[Llegir més]