The Tower of Diverse Shores

by Leonard Schwartz

Poetry. When a (young) Empire for the first time suffers invasion, hurt, pain, a casting off of symbols, trauma before the closing of ranks, vessels, values, there is also a reconsideration--at best a reconstitution--of the very tissues of language as if the culture has to learn how to speak all over again, to see itself--if lucky--fresh. A beginning which is made here, in these remarkable poems by Leonard Schwartz. THE TOWER OF DIVERSE SHORES is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584980311
• ISBN13: 9781584980315
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Talisman House Publishers
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Brief yet absorbing free-verse poetry

The Tower Of Diverse Shores is an evocative collection of brief yet absorbing free-verse poetry by Leonard Schwartz which deftly embraces the natural world and the hidden depths within seemingly incidental experiences. "Experiment warms you like a rose; / the great circus sprinkles you with dust / the self can neither pick over nor wall off. / And the philosopher is charged with a divided silence."