Lake Shore Drive is John Wilkinson's most public, openly political and expansive book. By contrast with the baroque architectonics of his last Salt book, Contrivances, Lake Shore Drive is wide-ranging and variously vernacular in both scope and form, en route between New York City, Damascus, East London and the Welsh, Cornish and Indiana shorelines. Four poem clusters provide the book's binding force in asphalt and marram grass, protein receptor sites and the remembrance of corrupt data. Among these are interwoven short poems as compressed as expletives, and technicolor desertscapes, along with a gaggle of geese and dollops of general balm. This book will ensure that John Wilkinson's poetry becomes the resort of a much extended readership.
- ISBN10 1844712559
- ISBN13 9781844712557
- Publish Date 15 July 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 6 April 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Salt Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 168
- Language English
- URL http://saltpublishing.com/products/lake-shore-drive-9781844712557