The award winning Scottish poet Don Paterson has assembled a comic, intelligent, and cranky collection of brief truths and conjectures and, in the process, revitalizes the classic pith of the aphorism. “The form’s only virtue is its brevity,” Paterson writes; “at least the reader cannot seriously hold that it has wasted their time.”
PRAISE FOR DON PATERSON'S APHORISMS:
"Clever, addictive, and funny."—Nick Hornby
"Contentious, rude, hilarious, moving, and truthful. A book you'll dip into for the rest of your life."—Ian Rankin
"Hundreds of wise meditations on all sorts of subjects, including love, death, literature, and sex. Aphorisms, being normally only two or three lines long, are in their form perfect for our times. In Paterson's hands, they become supremely wise and moving, as well." —Alain De Botton
PRAISE FOR LANDING LIGHT:
“Paterson has been the best thing to happen to British poetry since Glyn Maxwell and Michael Hofmann. For a small book, Landing Light covers a large stony ground.”
—William Logan, the New Criterion
“The US publication of this latest collection by Scottish poet Paterson is cause for celebration….What leaps out here is the passion, the musical inventiveness, and the breathtaking lyrical beauty. He is unafraid of jokes, wordplay, and resonance; and though he is smart, with a keen ear, his language is subtle and accessible.”
—✩Library Journal
