Book Description
Written with a fresh and liberated perspective, this collection of poems is dedicated to writers and artists Cox admires: Saul Bellow, Anton Chekhov, Vincent Van Gogh, and Walter Benjamin. Particularly influenced by the intoxicating presence of the physical world, this work explores all the senses and what one critic called "anticipatory elegy," the accepted knowledge of change and loss. While acknowledging the inevitable change and decay in life, his poems maintain a freshness of a writer set free in a world that before constrained him.
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The leisure in which Brian Cox now writes his poems is hard-earned. Poetry, always his chief passion as reader and teacher, was forced to the edges of his life during the years in which he followed his other vocation in the world of education. When, shortly before his retirement in 1993, his "Collected Poems" appeared, it was clear that he had managed to write distinctive verse against the odds. His new collection has the freshness of a writer set free in a world which before contrained him. The presence of a physical universe, fulfilling all the senses, is palpable in his language; there is also an undercurrent of impassioned memory and what one critic called - in relation to this "Collected Poems" - "anticipatory elegy", the accepted knowledge of change and loss. There is an ambitious series of poems dedicated to writers and artists he admires: Saul Bellow, Chekhov, Van Gogh and Walter Benjamin.
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