Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias FROM THE PUBLISHER
Word Play Place is the first sustained treatment of the poetry of John Matthias, who stands outside the mainstream of American poetry and is guided by an aesthetic that has not been easy to define. These twelve contributors and twelve points of view will permit readers to approach the ambition, the richness, and the strangeness of Matthias's work with awareness and understanding.
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Essays on the work of this significant American poet treat his career from its beginnings under the tutelage of John Berryman and Yvor Winters through its engagement with modern and postmodern poetics. These twelves points of view will permit readers to approach the ambition, the richness, and the strangeness of his work with awareness and understanding. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.