Eschewing irony for direct statement, the poems in Tod Marshall's first collection imagistically, musically, and passionately articulate a faith in human transcendence. From the mud of our formation ("Choir") to the dust of our dying ("After Kandinsky"), Marshall's poems lyrically obsess over how the broken and violated can envision and speak a heaven of which we know.
Three long poems that shape the book are formative in this process. From the structured order of Bach's Goldberg Variations looming behind the opening poem, "Eclipse," to the clash of pagan beauty and traditional...
Eschewing irony for direct statement, the poems in Tod Marshall's first collection imagistically, musically, and passionately articulate a faith in...
This powerful collection of poems from Laura Mullen is the edgy, unashamedly experimental, and formally inventive book of a poet who has found her way to her own voice or style--or rather voices and styles, for there are several. The poems of "After I Was Dead" develop harmonically rather than melodically: they leap from one register, one voice, one tone to another in deft juxtapositions that carry narrative only incidentally, destabilizing traditional notions of development. These poems are honed by a fine intelligence into elegant, sometimes funny art, as in Autumn: Her hair, brown. / Her...
This powerful collection of poems from Laura Mullen is the edgy, unashamedly experimental, and formally inventive book of a poet who has found her way...
Michael Heffernan's is a unique, controlled, yet oblique and interesting poetic voice, full of intelligence and marvelous self-awareness. This book is a sustained and professional performance, practiced any yet full of delightful chances.
Michael Heffernan's is a unique, controlled, yet oblique and interesting poetic voice, full of intelligence and marvelous self-awareness. This book is...
Unlike most collections, this well-wrought book is unified around certain central themes and images. These images may depict the various forms of love, either experienced in reality by the waking self or suffered anew in the archetypes of sleep, where old myths take on new meanings. The book is an investigation of the forms of love and through their effects on a single individual their effect on us all.
Originally published in 1967.
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Unlike most collections, this well-wrought book is unified around certain central themes and images. These images may depict the various forms of love...
The poems in this posthumous volume are grouped in five sections according to theme or subject matter; poems about art and the artist, about religion, about social issues, poems of a personal nature, and, finally, those employing the metaphor of teaching. the striking versatility of forms and moods demonstrates Godsey's success in attaining structure and diversity.
Originally published in 1967.
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The poems in this posthumous volume are grouped in five sections according to theme or subject matter; poems about art and the artist, about religion,...
The twenty-five poems included in this collection present a poet mature in both craft and perception and possessed of a fine capacity for being both lyric and analytic at the same time. There is no posturing, but always a position, both thought and felt.
Originally published in 1964.
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The twenty-five poems included in this collection present a poet mature in both craft and perception and possessed of a fine capacity for being both l...
The essential mind-mysteries are the subject of Vance's poems. Themes of mutability, maturation, discovery, and delight are projected through brilliant archetypal imagery controlled and perfected by a striking technical assurance. The poems are concentrated and sometimes demanding, but they are never obscure and they go deep.
Originally published in 1961.
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The essential mind-mysteries are the subject of Vance's poems. Themes of mutability, maturation, discovery, and delight are projected through brillian...
