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After a career of some fifty years, John Matthias pays homage in this book to a wide range of poetic masters, early teachers, friends, places, curiosities, fictions, and facts in a hybrid volume including several styles of verse and two essays. Ian Pople in Manchester Review has called Matthias "a kind of mid-Atlantic treasure, " and Guy Davenport declared him "one of the best poets in the USA." Matthias, an editor and teacher, as well as a pr...

The Man with the Book, or, The Bible Among the People has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable ...

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Acoustic shadows - sound suppressed in such a way that even General Grant was deceived by one at the Battle of Iuka in the American Civil War - complicates the lives of many figures appearing in these poems, including that of the young John Matthias at his Grandfather's house on Iuka Drive in Columbus, Ohio in the 1950s. This book, Matthias's first volume of entirely new poems since Complayntes for Doctor Neuro (Shearsman, 2016), includes a gr...

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Reading Old Friends includes essays, reviews, and poems on poetics. Matthias, who has spent much time in England, concentrates on British poetry ranging from late modernist figures such as David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to contemporaries such as Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Michael Hamburger, and John Fuller. He also seeks to establish, or re-establish, meaningful trans-Atlantic connections between Wendell Berry and Jeremy Hooker, for exampl...

Reading Old Friends includes essays, reviews, and poems on poetics. Matthias, who has spent much time in England, concentrates on British poetry ranging from late modernist figures such as David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to contemporaries such as Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Michael Hamburger, and John Fuller. He also seeks to establish, or re-establish, meaningful trans-Atlantic connections between Wendell Berry and Jeremy Hooker, for exampl...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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A collection of poems. It explores personal and political themes in the context of American cultural crisis, dealing with loss, actual and anticipated. It introduces by way of a series of variations, translations and portraits, questions of aesthetics, poetics and metaphysics.

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Suggests both continuity and change. This title features two sections that continue the idiom of "Turns" (1975) and include many poems on English themes. It contains the two concluding sequences that chart voyages across the Atlantic.

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