Alan
Thanks for this tip, but could you post a couple of
excerpts, maybe ones you especially like?
Ira
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:06:30 +0000 Alan Halsey wrote:
> From: Alan Halsey <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:06:30 +0000
> Subject: Martin Corless-Smith
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Martin Corless-Smith's collection OF PISCATOR has been published by
> Georgia U.P. Unpriced. The t.p. says 'Athens & London' but there's no UK
> address. isbn 0-8203-1947-3
>
> MC-S is an Englishman who has worked in the US for some years & perhaps
> the transAtlantic shift underwrites the quick-change dialect of these
> poems - they ARE dialect poems of a kind, although they skate across a
> variety of vernaculars; grammar fractures without undue force, fragments
> of older written English float through. Quasi-folk-rhymes break up
> narratives, the 'songs' seem ghosts of untold stories. The title
> sequence formalises the multivocality by identifying speakers in the
> manner of a play, introducing a disjointedness I feel uneasy with; there
> is a more flowing transition from the opening Songs to the impressive
> closing sequence To Absent Minister. Good balance between sound-control
> and unruliness. I can't identify all the voices and prefer the mystery
> of it anyway; but Clare keeps turning up (rhythms and textures of the
> journals rather than the poems) and I heard David Jones now and then.
> And nice to meet Mr Beddoes on page 16.
> --
> Alan Halsey
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