Tom Raworth; Eternal Sections

Series No.: SMC 023

ISBN: 978-1557131294, Pages:

American Literature, Poetry

A Sun & Moon title.

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Tom Raworth's poetry is at once narratively based and is radically disjunctive, a writing that at every moment seems to be pushing away from the line previous but suddenly snaps back into a logical whole and transforms the meaning and the reader's experience of the poem itself.

each district commander

set the boat further adrift

its extremities shading to indigo

deepening to a tone

appropriate in some respects

it weaved and danced there

Author of over twenty books of poetry, Raworth is recognized as one of the major British poets of the 20th century. His recognition in the United States equals that of any of his countrymen. Robert Creeley has said of him, "Tom Raworth is the one who's truly most interesting to me in England at the moment. I'm fascinated by what he's doing. He's an extraordinary poet."

In Eternal Sections, Raworth continues his study of the fluidity of meaning begun in Visible Shivers. The result is a brilliant work of art.