Description: "Clive James is more or less the only living poet who manages to be both entertaining and moving."--Edward Mendelson
Brief description: Clive James (1939--2019), author of the best-selling Cultural Amnesia and Poetry Notebook, was an Officer of the Order of Australia and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His writing appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.
Review Quotes: 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 mind's steady rush of soaring power, ' he could be speaking of this very volume.--Dwight Garner "The New York Times"