The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems

by Alan Williamson

Book Overview

Alan Williamson artfully joins social and literary history with personal experience in The Pattern More Complicated, a collection of his very best poems over the last twenty years. A powerful section of new poems draws the whole work together in a kind of autobiographical novel, as--in Eliot's phrase, from which the title is taken--"the pattern of dead and living" grows "more complicated" with the years. Williamson's verse is a refreshing examples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226899497
• ISBN13: 9780226899497
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.5"