Poems 1957-2006

Poems, written since 1957. Early influences include Pound ("free verse must still be verse - each line having its necessary rhythm") Montale, St.John Perse, Anhava, the Psalter. Aims as it were to make music out of the resonances of verbal images, scraps & details. Stylistic concerns move from imagistic ("never use an abstract noun till you're thirty") to social-conversational to political-personal-polemic. Collects most of GIRL WITH VIOLIN, PRIORITIES, SENSUALITIES, some SCURRILITIES, adding THE FIAGACH & others hitherto unpublished. INTERPRETATIONS include complete Sappho, & versions from Dante & Aeschylus. Also to be found distributed in Collected Writings 1.