So Much for Life
Selected Poems

By (author) Mark Hyatt

ISBN13: 9781643621784

Imprint: Nightboat Books

Publisher: Nightboat Books

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Published: 20/07/2023

Availability: Available

Description
A long awaited collection of poems by Mark Hyatt, one of the great lost writers of mid-century British poetry. Scarcely published in his lifetime, Hyatt’s work ­survives thanks to the intervention of poets and friends who saved his manuscripts and kept his poems in circulation. Queer in the decades before Gay Liberation; Romani; incarcerated in prisons and asylums; illiterate into adulthood: it’s tempting to read Hyatt according to the familiar script of the doomed poet, resounding with loneliness and isolation. But his poetry—“hot and tender,” funny and sad—tells another story: of love, liberatory commitment, and desire.
  • Poetry by individual poets
  • Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism
  • General (US: Trade)
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