Bøker av Jean Day

Maria Bowring, the eldest child of John Bowring, well known Victorian polititian and statesman, chose to spend the last years of her life in a Catholic Convent in London as an annuitant. In this book, through her contacts with the Bellasis family, a very highly regarded Catholic convert family which included two priests and three nuns, and other well known people of the time such as Florence Nightingale, we get a picture of what her life might have been like.

Poetry. LATE HUMAN is a collection of tragi-comic poems on lateness, belatedness, Weltschmerz, and borrowing (with a nod to Ernest Mandel's 1975 tome on the twilight of capitalism). The human of the title is multiple, personal, and drenched in the tears of the 21st century. Cracked children's rhymes lead onto an ethnography that takes Helen Mirren's first film appearance as seriously as Moby Dick. At the volume's center, three laments honor the "realism / that would send anyone to spasm," a sentiment that crests in the book's title poem before alighting, provisionally, in "Early Bird"--its dawn chorus.