David Lloyd’s poetry abides in a lineage of poetic modernism, often in dialogue with poets like César Vallejo, Paul Celan, and Mahmoud Darwish. The poems in The Harm Fields are rich in imagery, their language a fluent mix of registers, from colloquial idioms to technical language and literary citation, and replete with multilingual puns and portmanteaux. These poems carry forward the musical values and the questioning project of the modernist lyric, but their concerns are contemporary, haunted by the ongoing brutality of the times, from Ireland to Palestine, and reaching for a language adequate to mourning, persistence, and utopian possibility.
- ISBN10 082036262X
- ISBN13 9780820362625
- Publish Date 30 September 2022 (first published 1 September 2022)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Georgia Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 277
- Language English