The Color Wheel
Published on 26. November 1994
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-0-8018-4951-0 (ISBN)
Description
Through his collections of poems Timothy Steele has earned the reputation as a highly regarded poet who continue to work in meter. This volume brings together 35 new poems that extend the scope and deepen the spirit of his previous work. While always faithful to the richness and complexity of experience, the poems in "The Colour Wheel" aim to be clear and accessible. They blend imaginistic detail and reflection and bring to contemporary subjects what Steele calls "the preservative virtues of formal care".
Reviews / Votes
One of the finest contemporary poets to write in meter and traditional forms. . . . Steele's work has a clarity of thought and a precise phrasing of language that is stunningly poised.-Publishers Weekly If Timothy Steele is not a nom de plume, it deserves to be, for his poems celebrate daily transience in such durably crafted shapes that they become tempered blades of grass, in the American grain but in a field of art that our poets have too little cultivated.
-Virginia Quarterly Review
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-4951-0 (9780801849510)
DOI
10.56021/9780801849510
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Timothy Steele
The Color Wheel
Book
11/1994
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Person
Timothy Steele is the author of two previous collections of poems, Uncertanties and Rest and Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems, and of a book of literary criticism, Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter. He is professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles.