Selected Poems 1933-1988 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811210546)

Gavin Ewart, one of Britain's finest and most original poets, is presented here in a half-century retrospective. His subjects various and his approach toothsomely scathing, he believes: "good light verse is better than bad heavy verse any day of the week." Consider one of his briefest poems, "The Lover Reflects: Afterwards" - "Perhaps I was greedy. I know I should be grateful/You wanted a snack and I wanted a plateful." An inventive technical master (creator of the "Ewart" form), he stalks his favorite prey--hypocrisy, love's foibles, the "pseuds"--with a razor-sharp wit. "There is iron in irony, although you smile," he writes in one poem: "...I have my language, you have yours/ a lower-archy is a hierarchy viewed from above."

Author: Gavin Ewart
ISBN-10: 0811210545
ISBN-13: 9780811210546
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 06/17/1988
Pages: 117
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.29h x 5.64w x 0.59d