| The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems Contributor(s): Williamson, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226899497 ISBN-13: 9780226899497 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2004 Annotation: Alan Williamson artfully joins social and literary history with personal experience in "The Pattern More Complicated", a collection of his very best poems over the last twenty years. A powerful section of new poems draws the whole work together in a kind of autobiographical novel, as--in Eliot's phrase, from which the title is taken--"the pattern of dead and living" grows "more complicated" with the years. Williamson's verse is a refreshing examples of how delicately the personal can intersect with the public in a love for the considered life. "The Pattern More Complicated" assembles Williamson's most important, representative poems, marking the trajectory of poetic development and the recurrence of themes across the span of four previous collections to present a survey of a major American poet in a single volume. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2003064577 |
| Series: Phoenix Poets (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.18" W x 8.5" (0.76 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alan Williamson artfully joins social and literary history with personal experience in The Pattern More Complicated, a collection of his very best poems over the last twenty years. A powerful section of new poems draws the whole work together in a kind of autobiographical novel, as-in Eliot's phrase, from which the title is taken-"the pattern of dead and living" grows "more complicated" with the years. Williamson's verse is a refreshing examples of how delicately the personal can intersect with the public in a love for the considered life. The Pattern More Complicated assembles Williamson's most important, representative poems, marking the trajectory of poetic development and the recurrence of themes across the span of four previous collections to present a survey of a major American poet in a single volume. |