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Shibboleth (Oxford Poets) Book

The title poem of this collection looks at the linguistic initiation rites of soldiers. "One didn't know the name of Tarzan's monkey," it begins. Yet two verses later: "The morning of the first snowfall, I was shaving. Staring into a mirror nailed to a tree. Intoning the Christian names of the Andrews Sisters. 'Maxine, Laverne, Patty.'" The other entries are similarly inventive. Shibboleth won England's Whitbread Prize in 1989.Read More

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  • Product Description

    This is Michael Donaghy's first full-length collection of verse. The critic Alfred Corn commented, "Michael Donaghy's poems have the fine-tuned precision of a ten-speed bike...Poems so original, wry, and philosophical as this are hard to come by. Don't think of passing them up."

  • 019282564X
  • 9780192825643
  • Michael Donaghy
  • 24 November 1988
  • Oxford Paperbacks
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 64
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