The Weather in Japan
The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley is a 1st edition published by Jonathan Cape in 2000, featuring 68 pages in English. This work consolidates and expands upon the themes presented in Longley’s previous collections, Gorse Fires and The Ghost Orchid, offering a reflective exploration of the complexities of the 20th century. Through a blend of personal and political lenses, Longley examines the fragility of human order amid the backdrop of historical violence.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of imagery that traverses various locations, including Flanders, Terezin, Auschwitz, and Northern Ireland, while also drawing inspiration from the west of Ireland, Italy, America, and Japan. The book delves into concepts of home and civilization, presenting a nuanced perspective on the interplay between beauty and brutality. Longley’s work is characterized by a deep humanity and an ecological sensibility, illuminating delicate aspects of nature against the harsh realities of the world.
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In the space of two collections, Gorse Fires (1991) and The Ghost Orchid (1995), Michael Longley broke a long poetic slience and re-drew the map of poetry at the end of the millenium. The Weather in Japan consolidates and expands the vision of those volumes, leading the reader through the various hells we have made this century.
Preferring to see the horrors of political violence through the filter of the domestic, pointing up the fragility of the order we create, he takes us from the fields of Flanders, through Terezin and Auschwitz to the troubled north of Ireland. And, in images drawn from the west of Ireland, Italy, America and Japan, he explores the fundamentals of ‘home’ and ‘civilisation’.
Longley’s grave humanity, Zen-like connective imagination and ecological eye give the most delicate compelx, beautiful things – a spring gentian, a lapwing or a snowflake – the nutritious light that allows them to grow greater than the crass brutality that surrounds them.
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