Whomp And Moonshiver
By (Author) Thomas Whitbread
7.00
BOA Editions, Limited
BOA Editions, Limited
3rd January 1994
United States
Paperback
71
Width 220mm, Height 228mm, Spine 5mm
141g
"The prevalence of a loose 'naturalness' in contemporary poetry has made the ordinary reader a poor critic when he encounters meter, rhyme, and the like; he can't well distinguish the honest, functional use of such a means from a frilly and obtrusive formalism, and that's too bad. Still, it would take a very ordinary reader to find a culpable artificiality in Thomas Whitbred's poems. Their language has a supple openness, as of an amiable and intelligent man talking; both in its playfulness and in its gravity, it avoids the stagey; and it easily enlists any suitable form in the pursuit and sharpening of its point." - Richard Wilbur