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My daughters choice, the maple tree is new./ Come autumn and its leaves will turn to flame./ What I must do/ Is live to see that. Happily, Clive James has also lived to write this collection of poignant, elegantly crafted verses, in which he looks back gratefully on a rich life, and confronts his own mortality with wit, irony and unflinching honesty.
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Born in Australia, Clive James lives in Cambridge, England. He is the author of Unreliable Memoirs; a volume of selected poems, Opal Sunset; the best-selling Cultural Amnesia; and the translator of The Divine Comedy by Dante. He has written for the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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“[James is] fabulously gifted, enviably well-read, generously inclusive, and always commonsensical...The book stands as a whole as a manifesto to an essential faith in the force and beauty of language, especially language wrought to a high intensity by the shaping power of the poet...If there is such a thing as a reader of genius, then Clive James is it.”
- John Banville, New York Review of Books
“Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive, [Sentenced to Life is] both a great pleasure and a chill in the nerves.”
- A. S. Byatt, Guardian
“A writer whose commanding voice contains a constant variety of color and tone.”
- Robert McCrum, Observer
“James's recent poems...represent the very best work James has ever done in verse.”
- Jason Guriel, New Republic
- John Banville, New York Review of Books
“Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive, [Sentenced to Life is] both a great pleasure and a chill in the nerves.”
- A. S. Byatt, Guardian
“A writer whose commanding voice contains a constant variety of color and tone.”
- Robert McCrum, Observer
“James's recent poems...represent the very best work James has ever done in verse.”
- Jason Guriel, New Republic
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- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1447284046
- ISBN 13 9781447284048
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