| Whomp and Moonshiver Contributor(s): Whitbread, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0918526310 ISBN-13: 9780918526311 Publisher: BOA Editions OUR PRICE: $6.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 82071634 |
| Series: New Poets of America |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.7" W x 8.74" (0.30 lbs) 71 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The prevalence of a loose 'naturalness' in contemporary poetry has made the ordinary reader a poor critic when he encounters meter, rhyme, and the like; he can't well distinguish the honest, functional use of such a means from a frilly and obtrusive formalism, and that's too bad. Still, it would take a very ordinary reader to find a culpable artificiality in Thomas Whitbred's poems. Their language has a supple openness, as of an amiable and intelligent man talking; both in its playfulness and in its gravity, it avoids the stagey; and it easily enlists any suitable form in the pursuit and sharpening of its point. - Richard Wilbur |
