John Matthias’s New Selected Poems brings together both short and longer poems from eight previous books. It ranges from early lyrics written in America during the 1960s to meditative and epistolary poems deriving from his years spent in England during the 70s and 80s, formal experiments engaging issues of poetics, and sequences like Northern Summer, Facts from an Apocryphal Midwest, A Compostela Diptych, and Cuttings. Robert Duncan called his early poetry “the work of a Goliard – one of those wandering souls out of a Dark Age in our own time,” and Guy Davenport has said that his recent work makes him “one of the leading poets in the USA.” The present volume, together with Working Progress, Working Title, published by Salt in 2002, makes almost all of his major work available in Britain for the first time in many years.
- ISBN10 1844710408
- ISBN13 9781844710409
- Publish Date 17 July 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 January 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Salt Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English
- URL http://saltpublishing.com/products/new-selected-poems-9781844710409