Difficulty - Hardcover

William Logan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 090754052X ISBN 13: 9780907540526

Publisher: Imprint unknown, 1984

Synopsis

Here, in this new collection of poems, Logan again demonstrates his suppleness and subtlety. Here are the same arresting images and indelible places. Here, too, is a poet who is challenging without being inaccessible, serious without being pompous. This is the work of real talent, reaching and searching, but always in full command of voice, tone, and pitch. This is, in short, a collection that should be received with genuine rejoicing, the work of a young master well on his way to a great career.

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About the Author

William Logan is professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of three works of criticism and seven books of poetry.

From Library Journal

Though their images are taken largely from natureorchards, crows, moonlit landscapesthese poems are anything but rustic. Logan envelops the natural world in a highly philosophical, abstract mode of thought that manifests itself in meticulously stylized, almost hieratic diction. For all their imagistic richness, the poems are reserved, distant, inscrutable, cohering more through syntax than through sense. Except for the title poem, which moves toward poignancy ("I understand the love/ that twists us into lives we never meant"), and "The Shootist," a chilling monologue in ballad form, this solemn book presents a world mysteriously devoid of people, a life apart from life. Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint unknown
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 090754052X
• ISBN 13: 9780907540526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64