In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a five-person collective known as Fly gave now-legendary poetry readings in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Their poems-formally diverse, topically challenging, both witty and intense, variously hilarious and fulminating-emerged from the conflicting energies of those literary and political times and the group's affinities and enmities. At risk of being lost to history, the poems are here presented in their final states as collected by the group's organizer, Barrymore Ashe, before his untimely death. This provocative volume joins the lineage of Lyrical...
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a five-person collective known as Fly gave now-legendary poetry readings in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Their p...
Written between 1980 and 1987, the poems in The Imposition of Ashes are the early efforts of a poet whose subsequent work has received the praise of Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, and John Ashbery. The manifold energies of the later work are already on display here-in visionary odes and elegiac pastiches, disquieting lyrics and a splendid, half-mad eclogue. Admirers of Joseph Harrison's talent and readers of fraught, courageous, arresting poetry will find much delight in this book.
Written between 1980 and 1987, the poems in The Imposition of Ashes are the early efforts of a poet whose subsequent work has received the prai...
