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Against the sea
Some of these poems have appeared in Carcanet, Isis, and In Particular.
Ovid in Exile
In a Footnote
The Place
The Truth About Ariadne
Condemned Houses
Haiku
The Poet of the City
Horses in Rain
Perplexed by the Sunlight
Noon at Bursa
Two Dream-images
Book VI Reconsidered
Seer
Too Much Care
Destination
Ophelia at her Mirror, Undecided
Venice in Old Age
Like a Gift
Entropy
Ovid in Exile
In a Footnote
The Place
The Truth About Ariadne
Condemned Houses
Haiku
The Poet of the City
Horses in Rain
Perplexed by the Sunlight
Noon at Bursa
Two Dream-images
Book VI Reconsidered
Seer
Too Much Care
Destination
Ophelia at her Mirror, Undecided
Venice in Old Age
Like a Gift
Entropy
26 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1969
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March 20, 2019
Seems like humans are afraid of water, what with constantly building against the sea. This is more subtly relayed in the poems—well, in the ones that actually have anything to do with water. It's stated plainly in the last poem, however. Entropy was pretty good:
'Ophelia at her mirror, undecided' was my favourite poem out this collection. I loved the typography—the literal mirroring: splitting the poem into two sections yet also creating the full third version. All three versions were depressive and ghostly and somewhat beautiful within their insidious constrictions.
With what we are, we build
monuments against the sea.
'Ophelia at her mirror, undecided' was my favourite poem out this collection. I loved the typography—the literal mirroring: splitting the poem into two sections yet also creating the full third version. All three versions were depressive and ghostly and somewhat beautiful within their insidious constrictions.
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