ISBN-13: 9781848612792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 284 str.
ISBN-13: 9781848612792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 284 str.
Chronologically the first, Collected Shorter Poems, Vol. 1 is editorially the third of John Matthias's three-volume Shearsman Collected Poems. It includes the poems that first made Matthias's reputation-experimental work like 'Turns: Toward a Provisional Poetics and a Discipline'; politically activist poems from the 1960s and '70s such as his elegy for the Kent State University students killed by the Ohio National Guard; poems written from his fifteen years of living off and on in Suffolk; poems articulating an aesthetic of play-and-game like 'Clarifications for Robert Jacoby'; along with several epistolary poems, explorations of place, and family-oriented lyrics, such as the often translated and reprinted 'Poem for Cynouai.' This volume joins Collected Shorter Poems, Vol. 2 and Collected Longer Poems in bringing together all of the poetry, with the exception of Trigons (available separately from Shearsman), that Matthias wishes to preserve.
Chronologically the first, Collected Shorter Poems, Vol. 1 is editorially the third of John Matthiass three-volume Shearsman Collected Poems. It includes the poems that first made Matthiass reputation-experimental work like Turns: Toward a Provisional Poetics and a Discipline; politically activist poems from the 1960s and 70s such as his elegy for the Kent State University students killed by the Ohio National Guard; poems written from his fifteen years of living off and on in Suffolk; poems articulating an aesthetic of play-and-game like Clarifications for Robert Jacoby; along with several epistolary poems, explorations of place, and family-oriented lyrics, such as the often translated and reprinted Poem for Cynouai. This volume joins Collected Shorter Poems, Vol. 2 and Collected Longer Poems in bringing together all of the poetry, with the exception of Trigons (available separately from Shearsman), that Matthias wishes to preserve.