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Complayntes for Doctor Neuro and Other Poems John Matthias

Complayntes for Doctor Neuro and Other Poems By John Matthias

Complayntes for Doctor Neuro and Other Poems by John Matthias


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This book is John Matthias's first collection since his three-volume Collected Poems. Ending with the title sequence about being forced to confront some of the very neurological problems in fact which have in many earlier poems been something of a theoretical pre-occupation, this book also foregrounds his more experimental work.

Complayntes for Doctor Neuro and Other Poems Summary

Complayntes for Doctor Neuro and Other Poems by John Matthias

Complayntes for Dr. Neuro is John Matthias's first volume of poetry since Shearsman's publication of his three volumes of collected poems in 2011, 2012, and 2013. The present book, ending with the title sequence about being forced to confront some of the very neurological problems in fact which have in many earlier poems been something of a theoretical pre-occupation, also represents the more experimental side of his work that has tended to preoccupy the critics who have written on him over the past three decades, along with translation-based work (Virgil, the Chinese Shijing, Rimbaud), a run of austere shorter poems, many of an elegiac cast, and some graffiti-like riffs. Matthias has always written in several styles, and those are once again on display in this volume. The notes include an important gloss on the title poem, 'A Poetics of Parkinson's.'

About John Matthias

John Matthias was born in 1941 in Columbus, Ohio. For many years he taught at the University of Notre Dame and is now Editor at Large of Notre Dame Review.having long been its editor. 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 of verse include Turns, Crossing, Northern Summer, A Gathering of Ways, Swimming at Midnight, Beltane at Aphelion, Pages, Working Progress, Working Title, New Selected Poems and Kedging. He has also published translations from the Swedish, editions of David Jones' work, and a volume of literary criticism, Reading Old Friends. In 1998 Robert Archambeau edited Word Play Place, a selection of essays on Matthias's work. Another book of essays on his poetry appeared in 2011 in the Salt Companion series, edited by Joe Francis Doerr. Since 2010, Shearsman has republished all of his poetry in the volumes Trigons (2010), Collected Shorter Poems Vol. 2 (2011), Collected Longer Poems (2012) and Collected Shorter Poems Vol. 1 (2013). In 2011 Shearsman also pubished his essay collection, Who was Cousin Alice?, and followed this in 2016 with another compendium of his essays under the title At Large.

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NLS9781848615182
9781848615182
1848615183
Complayntes for Doctor Neuro and Other Poems by John Matthias
New
Paperback
Shearsman Books
2016-09-09
108
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