Nine

by Theodore Enslin

Poetry. Identified with the Objectivist tradition, Enslin writes about finding meaning within everyday human life as he observes the irreducible reality of the things of this world. Enslin carries forward Charles Olson's sense of the large historical and ethical function of poetry and his dedication at once ecopoetic and ethnopoetic, to place. Collecting Theodore Enslin's major work from 1993 to 2003, NINE is a companion volume to Enslin's THEN, AND SELECTED POEMS 1943-1993, also available from SPD books. In his recent poetry, Enslin has composed theme-and-variation sequences, exploring the musical permutation of a limited cluster of words. Tony Frazer calls Enslin's work "incantatory...captivating...marvelous."

Genres: Poetry

600 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

Reviews

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

a brilliant distillation of "late" Enslin; nine books, each divisble in sets and books and line lengths by magic primes. it's one and three and three times three; unlock the musical heart of the universe