Don Paterson, Author . Graywolf $14 (106p) ISBN 978-1-55597-353-7
Paterson's insouciant bad-boy riffs, quickly told stories and fluent rhymes have made him a hit in Britain: the Scottish writer and jazz guitarist hits these shores with this wildly uneven, sometimes striking, U.S. debut. The collection opens...
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Don Paterson, Author . Graywolf $18 (148p) ISBN 978-1-55597-505-0
Heralded throughout Great Britain, the Scottish poet Paterson has long deserved a broader American audience, and this collection of aphorisms may be the book to secure it. “The aphorism is a brief
waste of time,” Paterson asserts in his
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Don Paterson, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (61p) ISBN 978-0-374-24629-7
Readers of Scottish poet Paterson (Landing Light
) have come to depend on him for well-crafted poems, often in traditional forms, that present a dark-humored but unfailingly high-spirited and challenging perspective on conventional themes (love,...
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Don Paterson. Norton, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-324-09362-6
Poet and jazz guitarist Paterson (The Arctic) chronicles in this exuberant memoir his working-class childhood in Dundee, Scotland, up through his departure for London at the age of 20 in 1984. Socially awkward and intellectually curious, Paterson...
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