The Color Wheel

Timothy Steele

ISBN 10: 0801849527 / ISBN 13: 9780801849527

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

About this Item

Through his collections of poems Timothy Steele has earned the reputation as a highly regarded poet who continue to work in meter. This volume brings together 35 new poems that extend the scope and deepen the spirit of his previous work. While always faithful to the richness and complexity of experience, the poems in The Color Wheel aim to be clear and accessible. They blend imaginistic detail and reflection and bring to contemporary subjects what Steele calls "the preservative virtues of formal care".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Color Wheel
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801849527
• ISBN 13: 9780801849527
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Through his widely praised collections of poems Thimpthy Steele has earned the reputation as one of the most highly regarded poets born since World War II who continue to work in meter. Now Steele bring together thrity-five new poems that extend the scope and deepen the spirit of his previous work.

While always faithful to the richness and complexity of experience, the poems in The Color Wheel are clear and accessible. They blend imagistic detail and reflection and bring to contemporary subjects what Steele calls "the preservative virtues of formal care."

About the Author

Timothy Steele is the author of two previous collections of poems, Uncertanties and Rest and Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems, and of a book of literary criticism, Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter. He is professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles.