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As a street beggar (Tamerlaine?) in the opening poem warns, a life is no simple narrative with "a beginning, middle and end". "The Very Man", Charles Boyle's fourth Carcanet collection, is rich in unexpected digressions and conjunctions: Yuri Gagarin and a star of the silent screen, American films and the Eastern Bloc revolutions, D.H. Lawrence and deep-frozen fish, religion and a self-assembly bookshelves kit, Masai initiation rites and suburban adultery, 1812 and office afternoons. Here too are Stendhal in a Paris heat-wave, Muybridge murdering his wife's lover and other portrait sketches that, for all their clarity and cunning, often refuse to distinguish between real and invented lives.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Very Man
• Author: Charles Boyle
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• EAN: 9780856359552
• ISBN: 0856359556
• ID: 04741015
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 98 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 138 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. April 1993

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