In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck’s poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck’s verse deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic,...
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In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck’s poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck’s verse deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtapositional, and elliptical through the deck of normally discursive syntax. Echoing late high Modernism, Peck’s work, in the words of novelist Joseph McElroy, is “a way of seeing things,” confident “in the packed vividness of the referential.” Avoiding the narrow identity- or group-specific viewpoint of some of his conte
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Centuries; Dawn Renga; Canticle of the Winepress; Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons . . .; Society of Friends; Giovanni, would you . . .; To the One Who Stole My Box of Tools; Club W.; Avedon in his last days . . .; New York Sonnets; Hammonassett, Connecticut; A Veteran; Duchess; Book of Serenity; Fire; Papyrus Fragment Egerton 2; 1618; From the Factory in Wolfsburg; Incomings; Four Rivers and the Pennsy Yards; Contradance; Out of strife, peace: . . .; Venice's last . . .; Across and through- . . .; R. M. R.; Book of the Dead? We Have No Book of the Dead; Violin
