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- English
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About This Book
William Carlos Williams valued Charles Tomlinson's poetry: 'He has divided his line according to a new measure learned, perhaps, for a new world. It gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life.' Of all the poets of his generation, Charles Tomlinson was most alert to English and translated poetry from other worlds. The Mexican poet Octavio Paz admired how he saw 'the world as event... He is fascinated ā with his eyes open: a lucid fascination ā by the universal busyness, the continuous generation and degeneration of things.' Tomlinson's take on the world is sensuous; it is also deeply thoughtful, even metaphysical. He spoke of 'sensuous cerebration' as a way of being in the world. His poems are always experimenting with impression and expression. This dynamic selection, edited by the poet and Ted Hughes Award winner David Morley, presents Tomlinson to a new generation of readers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication to Brenda Tomlinson
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Selected Poems
- Prologue Swimming Chenango Lake
- Relations and Contraries (1951)
- The Necklace (1955, 1966)
- Seeing is Believing (1958, 1960)
- A Peopled Landscape (1963)
- American Scenes and Other Poems (1966)
- The Way of a World (1969)
- Written on Water (1972)
- The Way In and Other Poems (1974)
- The Shaft (1978)
- The Flood (1981)
- Notes from New York and Other Poems (1984)
- The Return (1987)
- Annunciations (1989)
- The Door in the Wall (1992)
- Jubilation (1995)
- The Vineyard above the Sea (1999)
- Skywriting (2003)
- Cracks in the Universe (2006)
- Epilogue The Door
- Afterword by David Morley
- About the Author
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- Copyright