So Much for Life

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Title: So Much for Life Author: Mark Hyatt ISBN: 9781643621784 Publisher: Nightboat Books Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition Note: New from the publishe r Publisher Description: A long awaited collection of poems by Mark Hyatt, one of the great lost writers of mid-century British poetry. Scarcely published in his lifetime, Hyatt's work -survives thanks to the intervention of poets and friends who saved his manuscripts and kept his poems in circulation. Queer in the decades before Gay Liberation; Romani; incarcerated in prisons and asylums; illiterate into adulthood: it's tempting to read Hyatt according to the familiar script of the doomed poet, resounding with loneliness and isolation. But his poetry--"hot and tender," funny and sad--tells another story: of love, liberatory commitment, and desire. Show more