Porlock Revisited and Other Poemson Literary Themes Sculptor these pieces make a strong

these pieces make a strong case for poetry - or one kind of poetry - as a medium wherein the exploration of formal possibilities goes along with the exploration of intellectually challenging and humanly significant themes

Carolyn is a woman answering a creative calling from childhood

American poet and critic

” —David Jay Brown

Porlock Revisited and Other Poemson Literary Themes Sculptor these pieces make a strongThese are poems about a great range of English language poets and novelists. They vary widely in voice or viewpoint; some (like the Milton, Hardy, Pound and Kafka pieces) are imagined as spoken by the author concerned while others (for instance the poems about Jonathan Swift, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Marianne Moore) see those figures addressed, discussed, sometimes challenged, and occasionally parodied.