Paperback. Poems, written since 1957. Early influences include Pound (“free verse must still be verse - each line having its necessary rhythm”) Montale, St.John Perse, Anhava, the Psalter. Aims as it were to make music out of the resonances of verbal images, scraps & details. Stylistic concerns move from imagistic (“never use an abstract noun till you’re thirty”) to social-conversational to political-personal-polemic. Collects most of GIRL WITH VIOLIN, PRIORITIES, SENSUALITIES, some SCURRILITIES, adding THE FIAGACH & others hitherto unpublished. INTERPRETATIONS include complete Sappho, & versions from Dante & Aeschylus.
Also to be found distributed in Collected Writings 1.
Details
- Publication Date
- Jan 5, 2007
- Language
- English
- Category
- Poetry
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Sydney Bernard Smith
Specifications
- Pages
- 256
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- Pocket Book (4.25 x 6.875 in / 108 x 175 mm)