Imagination Verses

by Jennifer Moxley

Imagination Verses is a moving and accomplished book of real lyric poetry. Hailed as a modern masterpice it is made available here in a new expanded UK edition. Rarely does a poet bring such talent and experience together in a single volume, it is a book of wonderous possiblities, warm, engaging and truly magical.

Genres: Poetry

116 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Electronic Poetry Center Author page:
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/moxley...

Reviews

[atito · Rating 4 out of 5]

there is something so lapidary & non-narrative here especially towards the end--her lineation is extremely alien to me, which is at times exciting & others frustrating. why lyric ! why "verses"... she's responding to something that is only in retrospect becoming clear to me. but i think this doubled reaction--that imagining form into something retrospective is already an unjust, frustrating process, or that it frustrates limits because it lingers in the "possible"--is perhaps the kind of thing she is after. i will read more of her

"Tonight I saw the moon / in the faint sky of Providence / and I was moved no deeper / for the distance. You must / know what you've done / to my ambition."

[RoyaSyntax · Rating 2 out of 5]

based on what i've read so far--moxley must've been coming out of a pretty heartbreaking break-up. i'm not blown away by any of her poems...but her preface is so damn right on!
maybe my mind will change if i can continue to read further....

[Pss · Rating 4 out of 5]

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