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Synopsis
John Matthias's New Selected Poems brings together both short and longer poems from eight previous books. It ranges from early lyrics, meditative and epistolary poems, formal experiments engaging issues of poetics, and sequences like Northern Summer, Facts from an Apocryphal Midwest, A Compostela Diptych, and Cuttings.
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About the Author
John Matthias was born in 1941 Columbus, Ohio. For many years he taught at the University of Notre Dame and continues to co-edit Notre Dame Review. He has been a Visiting Fellow in poetry at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and lived for much of the 70s and 80s in East Anglia. His books with Salt include Working Progress, Working Title (2002) and New Selected Poems (2004). He has published some twenty-five volumes of poetry, translation, criticism, and scholarship.
Review
Matthias consistently works to show us how the apparently distant is not only close to us, but constitutive of who we are. in Mattthias' poems we go out into the world of remote facts and unknown names only to find in the end that these remote things have immediate relevance to us, that we have always been who we are because of them, but hadn't known it. -- Robert Archambeau * Pleiades * I am not suggesting that Matthias is some latter-day Wallace Stevens (`Thou art not August unless I make thee so'). But what this wonderful selection brings home to its readers is both the power and the provisional nature of our imaginings. -- Alex Davis * PN Review * Over thirty years [Matthias] has built up a splendidly wrought mosaic of western culture and history shot through with personal inquiry and discovery. It's a fascinating, unfinished journey, a secular but passionate pilgrimage. * Stand Magazine *
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