Consulting With The Swifts: New and Selected Poems 1982-2016

by Lee Slonimsky

The best poems here, and they are many, all reclaim a moment from the clamor of the world; and each such poem in turn presents the attentive reader with a like moment of refuge... Like Monet with his haystacks or cathedrals, Slonimsky achieves repetition and variation without monotony. ...The poems invite us to focus, to triangulate, to seek out correspondences. Writing these poems helped Slonimsky to do these things; reading them helps us.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1944682155
• ISBN13: 9781944682156
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"