April Wind and Other Poems

by Frederick Turner and Frederick Turner

This collection of short poems written during the 1980s explores a connected group of ideas, feelings, and themes on the experience of beauty. A leader of the New Formalism movement, Turner has said that meter is no limitation to a poet, but a liberation. The strict metrical forms of the poems in April Wind illustrates this position. Written while Turner researched the poetic and neurobiological principles he set forth in Beauty: The Value of Values,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813913586
• ISBN13: 9780813913582
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"