though sometimes written as prose
Some Thing Black is a profound and moving transcription of loss
It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems
Written in response to producer Gastone Ferranti's request for his comments on a set of newsreel items
echoing out as the words of a potent phrase are permutated into an expanding ripple of meanings which they did not seem to be capable of when they were struck and then stuck into that phrase
Neutral Wisowb Edward van de Vendel though sometimes written as proseConnor Jones Contains four short poems and one long poem called 1Grey, a virtuosic, hi res, trompe loeil depiction of consciousness. There are vivid dropdowns into childhood, sleep, sex, swimming, stilt prolegs, spherical intensity, stock mortality, and Steinian meditations on shape and colour. But what propels it forwards is an astonishing facility with syntax and sound. Stevens told us of the pleasure of the merely going round, Until merely going