Bøger af Steve Tyler

The poems in A Hole in the Sun, Steve Tyler's first collection, are gathered across a lifetime of writing. They capture crucial moments of boy, youth and man, and what was lost along the way in language as sure as it is spare. Readers of poetry weary of cleverness and ironic detachment will find none of that here. Abstractions are few and concrete specifics are many. The poems undertake emotions elemental and raw, with grief and beauty the poles around which the words turn. They have the feel of Lorca's duende, something to do with soul and the chills a song can send down a spine. The central question the book raises goes to the sufficiency of emotion in the face of suffering. The poems themselves, in their creation and quality, answer yes. Line by line, image after powerful image, these lyric poems present a heartbreaking defense of the felt life.

"...This adventure came at a time in my life when I had no place left to go. The large part of a surveyor''s work is to locate himself on the earth, and maybe that''s why I took the job." For more than a dozen seasons, author Steve Tyler toiled as a land surveyor in the Alaskan wilderness, from rain-drenched Ketchikan to Kodiak Island, from the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea to Anaktuvuk Pass, gateway to the Arctic. Bear attack survival was standard training and in the remotest sites the crews entrusted their lives to bush pilots, some saner than others. Surrounded by men half his age, a misfit among misfits, Tyler carved out a space to reflect on all his life''s misadventures, recording moments of hilarity and horror, devastating sadness and jaw-dropping beauty.