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Children in Exile
Poems 1968-1984
James Fenton
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Fenton's work is elegant, highly finished, reticent, witty. Disturbing and deeply affecting,
Children in Exile
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Fraser
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Apr 23, 2012
I couldn't connect with most of his poetry, in particular the experimental type stuff. But I do have a few fond favorites, including: "A Vacant Possession", "The Skip", "Letter to John Fuller" and "God, A Poem"
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Jonathan
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Sep 26, 2009
Worth it for his poem (in limerick) about poet-suicides.
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Elizabeth
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Sep 18, 2007
An all-time favourite. Evocative poems about everything from Pol Pot to a dusty ethnographic museum in Oxford.
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Children in Exile
Poems 1968-1984
James Fenton
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
July 1994
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ISBN: 9780374524067
ISBN10: 0374524068
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 120 pages
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