Reading Old Friends: Essays, Reviews, and Poems on Poetics 1975-1990 (Margins of Literature

by John Matthias

John Matthias is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and has been Visiting Fellow in poetry at Clare Hall, Cambridge. His six volumes of poetry include Turns, Crossing, Northern New and Selected Poems , and A Gathering of Ways . He has co-translated Contemporary Swedish Poetry , and The Battle of Kosovo , and he has edited 23 Modern British Poets, Introducing David Jones , and David Man and Poet . He has received awards from the Columbia University Translation Center, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Society of Midland Authors, and the Poetry Society of America. His poems and essays appear regularly in many American and British journals, and his work has been translated into Swedish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, and Serbo-Croatian.

348 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992