Woman and the Sea: Selected Poems by Michael Mott, LN Book of Poetry. This is actually a NEW and unread book, just with tiny remnants of a sticker on it, so I have it listed as like new.
Poetry. Michael Mott's
poems are strong in all the qualities that make good poetry: formal
beauty, wise sense, and well-drawn imagery. He speaks to and for our
time, from deep wells of history, with a firm understanding that the
present is always an experience of the past-Guy Davenport. In this
extensive selection, Mott tempers dense, often historical or literary
subject matter with a Joycean ear for living language: to scream in the
mosquitoes' wail or burn aglow / in fireflies crossing now the wastes
you know / cool lids of twilight Chickamauga's risen trees
(Chickamauga). As George Garrett writes in his introduction, There is a
subtle and diverse music playing in all these poems, a rich virtuosity
(occasionally elaborate) of end rhymes and internal rhymes, masculine
and feminine, and echoes. Mott was born in London in 1930, and currently
lives in Williamsburg, Virginia