Of Piscator : poems / by Martin Corless-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corless-Smith, Martin.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Contemporary poetry series (University of Georgia Press)

The contemporary poetry series

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

79 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1997]

Summary:

Cutting-edge poems with a nod to tradition

Pushing the language of Shakespeare and Geoffrey Hill into the necessary future, Martin Corless-Smith writes the kind of poem that invites a reader to rejoice in the sound of words and to meditate on those words' connection to the history of language. As an alien in several senses of the word, the mind behind these poems looks at the world from a dizzying but also dazzling perspective. Populated by snakes, birds, vines, insects, and mysterious lovers, Of Piscator is a dreamscape of natural and manmade jungles. "We have a collection of Zoos", Corless-Smith writes. "We keep them in an animal called memory".

ISBN:

0820319473

OCLC:

36806895