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In my father's house
David P. Kinloch

In my father's house

Carcanet Press Ltd. (Oct 28, 2005)
9781857547665
90 pages | 146 x 220 mm
Dewey 821.914
LC Classification PR6061.I497 .I5 2005

Subject

  • Poetry

Plot

This extended sequence of poems explores eccentric fathers and other adult relationships through an examination of patriarchal values that includes such figures as the 19th-century explorer David Livingstone, Irish patriot Roger Casement, and the poet's own father. The second part of this collection includes a long narrative poem that celebrates the relationship between two 17th-century Englishmen—a diplomat and a doctor. Inspired by portraits hanging in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the verses detail their passionate and erudite life together in Constantinople.