Learning to Sleep by John Burnside 2016 masculinity and hip-hop

masculinity and hip-hop

writes in the language of the heart

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Learning to Sleep by John Burnside 2016 masculinity and hip-hopLucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness. Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, John Burnside's first collection of poetry in four years from the author's mother, commemorated in an exquisitely charged variant on the pastoral elegy, to the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who wanders an implausible Lincolnshire landscape looking for some sign