Pages
New Poems and Cuttings
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2000
Book
Hardback
132 pages
978-0-8040-1019-1 (ISBN)
Description
A unique voice among contemporary American poets, John Matthias has compiled here a major new collection, his first volume of poetry since the publication in 1995 of his retrospective collections of shorter and longer poems. Divided into three sections, Pages begins with thirty short poems that range in subject from Ovid and Akhmatova to remembered friends and family.
The second part is the experimental and expansive title section, engaging a sometimes humorous and sometimes horrifying sequence of contradictions and non sequiturs.
The final section of the volume is a poetic pastiche of letters, journals, poems, and scientific literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries having to do with botany, botanical drawing, voyages of exploration, and related concerns.
The second part is the experimental and expansive title section, engaging a sometimes humorous and sometimes horrifying sequence of contradictions and non sequiturs.
The final section of the volume is a poetic pastiche of letters, journals, poems, and scientific literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries having to do with botany, botanical drawing, voyages of exploration, and related concerns.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ohio
United States
Publishing group
Ohio University Press
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-8040-1019-1 (9780804010191)
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Person
John Matthias is the author of seven previous volumes of poetry. He teaches at Notre Dame University.