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A Clip of Steel: A Picaresque Autobiography
A Clip of Steel
was first published in 1969, when Thomas Blackburn was fifty-three years old. He had often explored the traumas of his childhood and early life in his poetry, but in this memoir he tells the story in its terrifying entirety. He called the work ‘a picaresque autobiography’ and in a writing style that races you through the pages, he confronts his own and his
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Paperback
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136 pages
Published
March 18th 2014
by Valancourt Books
(first published 1969)
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Thomas Blackburn (1916-1977) had three great loves: mountaineering, English literature, and the writing which he used as a passionate sounding board for his own process of self-discovery. He published eleven books of poetry in which he spoke with an increasingly direct voice about his private demons and his spiritual quest towards an inner resolution—something which he did manage to achieve before
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