Hadean Eclogues

by Frederick Turner

An eclogue is a sort of picnic in words. In this latest book of poetry by one of the leading practitioners of Expansive Poetry, Turner asks in his introduction, "Suppose there could be a poetry, even a scientific description of reality, that left undamaged the principles, the honor, the history and myth, the ritual, the intellectual criteria of believers and unbelievers ... as long as they were people of depth and thought and imagination?"

90 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 1999

About the author

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Frederick Turner was born in Northamptonshire, England, in 1943. After spending several years in central Africa, where his parents, the anthropologists Victor W. and Edith L. B. Turner, were conducting field research, Frederick Turner was educated at the University of Oxford (1962-67), where he obtained the degrees of B.A., M.A., and B.Litt. (equivalent to a PhD) in English Language and Literature. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1977.
He is presently Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. From 1978-82 he was editor of The Kenyon Review.

Reviews

[Troy Camplin · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent collection of Turner's poems.