Last words
By: Guy Bennett.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: New American Poetry Series -- NAP 19.
Publisher: Sun & Moon Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Description: Last Words, the first book of poems by poet/translator Guy Bennett, is a collection of brief, densely metaphorical lyrics characterized by a tension of form, syntax and meaning. Using a collage technique described by Cage as "writing through" other writers (in this case, poets ranging from Stein to Guest, from Lorca to Mac Low), Guy Bennett fuses together a variety of poetic timbres and stylistic registers into a single lyric voice.

The result is a suite of humorous, often enigmatic poems whose potential meanings lie somewhere in the linguistic, yet inevitably human space that separates the reader from the work.
Notes: Poems.