Paradise Lost
Nicholas Everett, 11 July 1991
The Mail from Anywhere
by Brad Leithauser.
Oxford, 55 pp., £5.95, September 1990,0 19 282779 0 Show More
by Brad Leithauser.
Oxford, 55 pp., £5.95, September 1990,
An Elegy for the Galosherman: New and Selected Poems
by Matt Simpson.
Bloodaxe, 128 pp., £6.95, October 1990,1 85224 103 9 Show More
by Matt Simpson.
Bloodaxe, 128 pp., £6.95, October 1990,
“... avoiding paraphrasable meaning altogether. One need only point to the work of Wallace Stevens or John Ashbery to show how successfully some of it sustains our expectations while ultimately refusing to deliver the semantic goods. Having extracted a poem’s point, runs the usual defence of such teasing evasions, readers will have no further use for the poem ... ”