In poems whose subjects range from theme parks to late-night radio, the aftermath of the Holocaust to television, "The Life and Letters" represents a celebrated poet-scholar at the height of his art.
In poems whose subjects range from theme parks to late-night radio, the aftermath of the Holocaust to television, "The Life and Letters" represents a ...
Alan Williamson artfully joins social and literary history with personal experience in "The Pattern More Complicated," a collection of his very best poems over the last twenty years. A powerful section of new poems draws the whole work together in a kind of autobiographical novel, as in Eliot's phrase, from which the title is taken "the pattern of dead and living" grows "more complicated" with the years. Williamson's verse is a refreshing examples of how delicately the personal can intersect with the public in a love for the considered life. "The Pattern More Complicated" assembles...
Alan Williamson artfully joins social and literary history with personal experience in "The Pattern More Complicated," a collection of his very best p...
