| Someone else's life | |
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Published by: Bloodaxe Books 2003 AUP Someone else's life tells with supreme clarity and fearless candor what it means to be adrift in the last years of the 20th century and the first of the 21st. It is a book of perpetual exile, of endless comings and goings, in a world that offers neither stability, nor salvation. Still, the very intelligence of this book - sceptical, riveting, passionate - suggests that there may be an answer to the uncertainty that is everywhere around us. (Mark Strand, US Poet Laureate) |
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In the Shadow of the Bridge Wherever we went, something else was on our minds. It was too hot, it was too cold. We were tired, we were not in the mood. We had been there. It wasn’t what we wanted. We were the constant witnesses of ourselves. One evening, the moon rose from the horizon like we’d never seen it: enormous and yellow. We drove towards it in the falling night. We knew it was a rare chance. We stopped at the roots of a bridge. We stood in its giant shadow, pierced by the headlights of passing cars above. Across the black, wind-combed water was a city and all its alien lights. We had come from that city. Your camera on a tripod by the edge of the water. I sat inside the vintage car. The moon bulged right above us. We had everything that night. So we took a picture and drove away. | |
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