The Book of Shadows

by Don Paterson

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Eloquent, illuminating, and intimate, The Book of Shadows is where the profound, the poetic and the profane meet to glorious effect Aphorism (n.): a pithy observation which contains a general truth 'All my teachers have been women. Though several men have taken me aside for an hour to tell me things they know' The Book of Shadows contains several hundred reflections and aphorisms on love, God, art, sex, death, work, and the spirit, imagination and conduct of the human animal. Writing with the same mixture of high seriousness, dark humour and lyric precision that define his poetry, Don Paterson...Read more
  • ISBN10 0330431838
  • ISBN13 9780330431835
  • Publish Date 17 September 2004
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 June 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Picador
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Language English