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

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Average rating: 4.50 · 236 ratings · 10 reviews · 30 distinct works

	Collected Poems 4.88 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Tottering State: Selected Early Poems, 1963-1983 4.89 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Ace 4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Clean and Well Lit: Selected Poems, 1987-1995 4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	A Serial Biography 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1977	My rating:
	Caller and Other Pieces by Tom Raworth, Raworth Tom 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Moving 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Meadow 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	Eternal Sections 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Earn Your Milk 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	My rating: