The Mill Is Burning

by Richard Matthews

In his first collection of poems, The Mill Is Burning, 2001 Pen/Joyce Osterweil Award winner Richard Matthews brings to bear an astonishing range of poetic modes and voices to explore landscape internal and external, light and dark, real and fanciful, near and remote. These are poems distinctive in both their lyrical and emotional urgency and their intelligence and craft. Matthews does not flinch from difficult subjects. In "Cavafy Suite," he re-imagines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802138861
• ISBN13: 9780802138866
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

The most brilliant and exquisite English poems about Korea

English poems are very challening to non-native English speakers, but as a Korean reader, I found this book, especailly the poems about Korea's temples and places, presents the wonderful interpretation of Korean culture with the poet's sublime taste and poetic imagination.