{"product_id":"9780374524371","title":"Out of Danger : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eOut of Danger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): James Fenton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut of Danger\u003c\/i\u003e (1994) was Fenton's first collection of poems in ten years, and the poems in it renew and amplify the qualities of unflinching observation and freewheeling verbal play that made his earlier \u003ci\u003eChildren in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e so distinctive and distinguished. The poems in this book's title sequence address the dangers of love, and the love of danger; Fenton proposes that in love, politics, and poetry alike the truth is \"something you say at your peril\" and yet \"something you shouldn't contain.\" Part II of the book, \"Out of the East,\" is a series of ironical fight songs about political violence-- in Manila, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square, and elsewhere. Part III, \"Maski Paps,\" reveals again Fenton's celebrated talents for light-verse nonsense. And in \"The Manila Manifesto\" he turns his gifts loose upon the world of poetry itself in ways that will both enrage and delight. \u003ci\u003eOut of Danger\u003c\/i\u003e is refined and daring, jocular and deeply challenging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mr. Fenton has already written four or five of the poems future anthologists will squabble over. \u003ci\u003eOut of Danger\u003c\/i\u003e has moments of Villon, and moments where Gilbert and Sullivan are trying to overthrow Queen Victoria.” —\u003ci\u003eWilliam Logan, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ever since he precociously arrived on the scene in the early 1970s, barely 20, Fenton has had a voice-- a range of voices, a good pair of ears, an alert and often disconcerting knack of suddenly doing something different...Fenton has few imitators. He is \u003ci\u003esui generis\u003c\/i\u003e, veering in [this] book from the most naked, exposed love lyrics (look at 'Serious,' 'Out of Danger') to hypnotic, cunningly crazy flights of rhetoric ('Out of the East,' 'The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah'). I feel that Fenton, with each impulse towards a new poem, \u003ci\u003ehas\u003c\/i\u003e to make it new. He listens attentively to the voices in his head and, when the moment comes, it comes. And the whole dazzling performance works because the craft, the techniques have been tuned and turned and made ready. This is a wonderful book.” —\u003ci\u003eAnthony Thwaite, The Sunday Telegraph (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here is a strong, fresh, pleasant wind blowing away the convoluted miasmas of most of his contemporaries, and the wind carries much clearer, cleaner, more complex and intensely memorable messages than the miasmas do.” —\u003ci\u003eHilary Corke, The Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374524371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40594050973902,"sku":"9780374524371","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c45f024c-520e-4b72-8107-563ff2807e2e.jpg?v=1637800037","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374524371","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}