* Title: Shapeshifting * Author(s) name(s): Timothy Thornton * ISBN (or ASIN): unknown * Publisher: RunAmok Press * Publication Date Year: 2024 * Publication Date Month: February * Publication Date Day: unknown * Page count: 40 * Format: paperback * Description: "Shapeshifting (2024), right out of the blue, is a work of startling beauty and tenderness. There are 28 poems, mostly with one-word titles, plus some scratchy drawings to complement the cover by Salomé Honório. The structure seems to call back to Jocund Day, a set of love lyrics with distinct motifs, prized words (hector, again! lozenge!), and a settled devastation of style. These are poems of loneliness and sudden, frantic encounter. They tend towards cliff edges, ridges, caves, towpaths, woods. Thornton is a great poet of setting out, and the boyish entanglement of utopia and panic. ‘We should go!’, he once wrote, and as readers we try to keep up, conscious of the depth of the water, the strength of the current, the suddenness of the drop. Thornton’s great predecessor is Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the way Hopkins – verbally, musically – can both grasp a whole field and zero in on the particular glint of a body in flight, always thrilling at the linebreak... This is the exacting and costly work of thought and feeling’s transformation into art, sounding it out, sweating over the poem as a site of charged contact and life-preserving song." - Luke Roberts, review for The Hythe @ 87Press * Link to book page which includes the cover and other books data on a NON-BOOKSELLER site: https://runamokpress.cargo.site/untit...
* Author(s) name(s): Timothy Thornton
* ISBN (or ASIN): unknown
* Publisher: RunAmok Press
* Publication Date Year: 2024
* Publication Date Month: February
* Publication Date Day: unknown
* Page count: 40
* Format: paperback
* Description: "Shapeshifting (2024), right out of the blue, is a work of startling beauty and tenderness. There are 28 poems, mostly with one-word titles, plus some scratchy drawings to complement the cover by Salomé Honório. The structure seems to call back to Jocund Day, a set of love lyrics with distinct motifs, prized words (hector, again! lozenge!), and a settled devastation of style. These are poems of loneliness and sudden, frantic encounter. They tend towards cliff edges, ridges, caves, towpaths, woods. Thornton is a great poet of setting out, and the boyish entanglement of utopia and panic. ‘We should go!’, he once wrote, and as readers we try to keep up, conscious of the depth of the water, the strength of the current, the suddenness of the drop. Thornton’s great predecessor is Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the way Hopkins – verbally, musically – can both grasp a whole field and zero in on the particular glint of a body in flight, always thrilling at the linebreak... This is the exacting and costly work of thought and feeling’s transformation into art, sounding it out, sweating over the poem as a site of charged contact and life-preserving song." - Luke Roberts, review for The Hythe @ 87Press
* Link to book page which includes the cover and other books data on a NON-BOOKSELLER site: https://runamokpress.cargo.site/untit...