Accidents of Priority
John Redmond, 22 August 1996
The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems
by Jorie Graham.
Carcanet, 220 pp., £12.95, March 1996,1 85754 225 8 Show More
by Jorie Graham.
Carcanet, 220 pp., £12.95, March 1996,
Selected Poems 1976-1996
by George Szirtes.
Oxford, 126 pp., £9.99, March 1996,0 19 283223 9 Show More
by George Szirtes.
Oxford, 126 pp., £9.99, March 1996,
“... himself given the opportunity: Suppose this poem were about you, would you put in the things I’ve carefully left out: descriptions of pain, and sex, and how shiftily people behave toward each other’? Naw, that’s all in some book it seems. For you I’ve saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches, and the glass eye ... ”