Blake's Newton

by Michael Palmer

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Genres: Poetry

61 pages, Paper Wrappers

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Michael Palmer is a poet associated with the Language Poetry movement; he is also a translator and has worked on art with painters and dancers.

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Reviews

[Jesse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Linked to the Language poets, but here in the debut I hear Wallace Stevens (when Stevens is in a bad mood): "Everything's/fat and unlovely/by the door. The/houses of red and green/of the various schemes."

Also Mark Strand (more Stevens) in elegaic lines like these: "the ducks have gone while there's/room/and the ice is clear/on what is there when/to my eyes her mounting/losses over the years/the lines lately, turning corners."

Also Frank O'Hara: "The talk is loud and everyone's laughing./One reason is that Kit got back last night/still alive and has already begun/a new moustache, now legal."

Occasionally super difficult, and "writ[ing] difficult poems" is an explicit theme here and there. The first two lines of the opening are "Its form, at tables by fours/leap... relieved of their weight." The poem is about a hawk. Nice ending though: "It/goes and/around her/dusting some lady's clothes/from an edge like/trees, turning pages, around or/else about her, the wings marked/by eyes, and seeing twice."

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit too esoteric for my taste.