Nefertiti in the Flak Tower: Poems [Hardcover]

Clive Jamess renown as an internationally celebrated poet continues to expand, and there is no stronger evidence for this thanClive James is more or less the only living poet who manages to be both entertaining and moving.Edward Mendelson Mr. James is a canny poet as well as a critic and memoirist, and this elegiac book finds him confronting illness and old age with vigor and salty wit. When he writes about a dead friend, Your poems were the condensation trails/Of a bright minds steady rush of soaring power, he could be speaking of this very volume. US