The breakage : poems / Glyn Maxwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxwell, Glyn, 1962-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

81 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Houghton Mifflin edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Summary:

Glyn Maxwell's poems are adventures from the known to the unknown, seeming to take even more delight in the exploration than in the content of the lessons learned. A series of verse letters to the English poet Edward Thomas, killed in the First World War, anchors the book, but the variety of form and mood here -- from the mysteriously introspective to the overtly humorous -- is breathtaking. With this, his fourth collection of poems, Glyn Maxwell proves himself to be a contemporary master in the tradition of W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and even Robert Frost, whose time in both England and America he evokes.

Notes:

"First published in 1998 by Faber and Faber Limited"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

0395963206

OCLC:

48023518