A Two-Part Invention

by Elizabeth Garrett

The informing spirit of Garrett's second collection is music - in the cadences of the language, the forms and resolutions of the poems. For her, a memorable poem is a kind of two-part invention, an interplay of the reader's imagination and the poet's intention. As in Bach's deceptively simple studies of that name, when the two discrete melodic lines of reader's and poet's imagination run parallel, polyphony is suggested. Elizabeth Garrett's debut...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852244623
• ISBN13: 9781852244620
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.4" x 8.5"