In his nineties Philip Gross's father, a wartime refugee, began to lose his several languages, first to deafness, then profound aphasia. Deeply thought as well as deeply felt, these poems reach into that gulf to find him - through recovery of histories both spoken and unspoken as well as an excavation of the spoken word itself. Readers who admired Philip Gross's subtlety and range in his T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection The Water Table will find those qualities brought to a new human urgency in the compelling sequences of Deep Field.
- ISBN10 1322485445
- ISBN13 9781322485447
- Publish Date 17 December 2014 (first published 24 November 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bloodaxe Books
- Format eBook
- Language English