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New Selected Poems
John Matthias's New Selected Poems brings together both short and longer poems from eight previous books. It ranges from early lyrics, meditative and epistolary poems, formal experiments engaging issues of poetics, and sequences like Northern Summer, Facts from an Apocryphal Midwest, A Compostela Diptych, and Cuttings.
- GenresPoetry
387 pages, Paperback
First published May 31, 1984
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March 1, 2007
First of all, I think I enjoy most Salt Modern Poets books. Matthias comes out of the Pound mold. If you are looking for a poet who will force you out into the world of ideas and history and language and and and, read Matthias. If you want to navel gaze, don't.
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