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Contains poems that are paired down to response to the metaphysical questions and contradictions. The enlargement of the author's concerns is built upon the refinement of his technique. This book shows him in a winter light.
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Published over 50books of poetry and prose between 1913-2000. Most of his poems from his first 50years are in collected poems 1945-1990 (phoenix Press), while his later poems are published in four collections from bloodaxe, counterpoint (1990), mass for hard times(1992), No Truce with Furies (1995) and now residues.
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At the time of his death, Thomas (1913-2000) still stood in the shadow of fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas (1914-53). Perhaps that situation won't soon change; rounded poetry readers should nonetheless consider acquaintance with his work essential. His idiom is much less spectacular than Dylan's: no heavily sprung rhythms, no virtuosic wordplay, no dazzlingly wrenched syntax. He stands to Dylan rather as William Carlos Williams stands to Wallace Stevens. But whereas Williams is objective and material as well as plain, Thomas is subjective and spiritual. A priest in poor Church of Wales (Anglican) parishes for 50 years, he considered the ways of God repeatedly, and the poverty he worked amidst provoked a theological skepticism in him that borders on Beckett-like absurdist stoicism: "Watching" others' lives, he concludes that God watches, too, but "from behind the cross that is / the astigmatism in his vision." Weightily conscious of evil, he is abundantly grateful for life, matrimony, nature, and friendship. Even these gleanings from a file of typescripts he had marked "residues" are profoundly impressive. Ray Olson
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. When he died in 2000 at the age of 87, R.S. Thomas was still confronting the difficulties and uncertainties which beset us all with the urgency and candour of a much younger writer. In Residues, the poems are pared down in response to the metaphysical questions and contradictions he was still wrestling with. The enlargement of his concerns is built upon the further refinement of his technique. Residues shows Thomas in a winter light, his fury concentrated on the inhumanity of man and modern technology, his gaze absorbed by the God he felt in Nature, but nding nourishment in waste places. At the same time he writes with resigned feeling and immense insight, as well as grim humour and playful irony, of isolation, ageing, marriage and loves shining greenhouses. For Thomas, poetry is a spell woven / by consonants and vowels / in the absence of logic: 'Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.'. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR002215411
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