A shorter life
"In this collection, Alan Jenkins plays a series of powerful and haunting variations on love and loss. In poems that pay homage to his own past experience - a suburban fifties childhood, a heady youth of rebellion and exploration - Jenkins reminds us vividly of what is experienced by us all. The search for love (or failing that, sex), the passing of time and the inevitability of pain and grief, the struggle for transcendence against our awareness of limitation: these are the things that can suddenly seem to compose a life - a life not so much reduced to essentials as seen in its passionate essence, a 'shorter' life."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2005
Chatto & Windus, London, 2005