Pages: New Poems & Cuttings - Softcover

Matthias, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080401020X ISBN 13: 9780804010207

Publisher: Swallow Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

Propelled by an unyielding rhythmic energy and the juxtaposition of disparate elements, Matthias again demonstrates the force of his poetic impulse but with a greater formal variety and a wider range of subject than ever before.

About this title

About the Author:

John Matthias was born in 1941 Columbus, Ohio. For many years he taught at the University of Notre Dame and continues to co-edit Notre Dame Review. He has been a Visiting Fellow in poetry at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and lived for much of the 70s and 80s in East Anglia. His books with Salt include Working Progress, Working Title (2002) and New Selected Poems (2004). He has published some twenty-five volumes of poetry, translation, criticism, and scholarship.

About this edition

• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 080401020X
• ISBN 13: 9780804010207
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 132