Tom Raworth





Tom Raworth

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[E]arly poetry showed the influences of the Black Mountain and New York School poets, particularly Robert Creeley and John Ashbery together with strands from European poetry (Apollinaire), Dada, and Surrealism. His 1974 book Ace saw Raworth move to a more disjunctive style, built from short, unpunctuated lines that entice the reader into following multiple syntactic possibilities, as they knit together everything from observations of the everyday to self-reflexive commentary on the acts of thinking and writing, to affectionate lifts from pulp fiction and film noir, to political satire. A series of long poems in this mode followed--after Ace came Writing (composed 1975-77; published 1982), Catacoustics (composed 1978-81; published 1991) and...more


Average rating: 4.50 · 236 ratings · 10 reviews · 30 distinct works
Collected Poems
4.88 of 5 stars 4.88 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2003
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Tottering State: Selected E...
4.89 of 5 stars 4.89 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions
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Ace
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Clean and Well Lit: Selecte...
4.72 of 5 stars 4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1996
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A Serial Biography
4.64 of 5 stars 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1977
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Caller and Other Pieces
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Moving
4.88 of 5 stars 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings3 editions
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Meadow
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Eternal Sections
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1992
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Earn Your Milk
4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009
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