This Here Paradise

by Calvin Wharton

This Here Paradise begins with an epigraph from the work of Welsh poet, Menna Elfyn: "your language a hymn/ lost in the multitude, / requiem for a world/ that's forgetting how to be". As if in response to this "forgetting," Wharton's poems move from the personal to cross a panorama of hopeful attentiveness. Clear images combine with a distinctive sense of rhythm and music to shape a collection both straight-ahead readable and carefully thoughtful,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772141933
• ISBN13: 9781772141931
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Anvil Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.