Selected poems, 1968-1998
Subtitle: John Wood.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Fayetteville, Ark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Description: Selected Poems, 1968-1998, represents thirty years of John Wood's work, offering his readers a most comprehensive view of an unusual mind and spirit that is at once eloquent and humorous. In poems that range from narratives, lyrics, and elegies, to odes, satires, and even a mini-epic, his work whips language into intense emotion. The prospering genius of these poems is that they seek not so much to redeem or reclaim what is lost, but to redirect perspectives with a generous sweep of possibilities.