The winner in the third annual contest for the New Criterion Poetry Prize, Skywriting and Other Poems is a triumphant book by an acknowledged master of the craft. Charles Tomlinson's unfailing sensitivity and decorum toward the visual world is brilliantly realized in this new book. Willard Spiegelman calls him "a patient looker at landscape." Whether his subject is a temple in Japan, the landscapes of his native England, or the "lithe iambics" of two runners on a beach in Italy, Mr. Tomlinson's extraordinary perception is everywhere evident. It is a perception that lights up the world, "as lightning explores the sleeping face of nature." His ethical sense emerges not from politics or a social agenda but from his precise and fastidious evaluation of the perceived world. Donald Hall calls him "a master of the craft....His poems have the finality of form which you find only among the first-rate."
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His poems are among the best in the English language this century. (Hugh Kenner )
Tomlinson's perfected style has been little imitated, but I predict it will come to be seen as one of the major achievements of late twentieth-century English verse. (Times Literary Supplement )
Tomlinson's poetry gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life. (William Carlos Williams )
A patient looker at landscape. (Willard Spiegelman )
A master of the craft, his poems have the finality of form which you find only among the first-rate. (Donald Hall )
He is fascinated—with his eyes open: a lucid fascination—at the universal busyness, the continuous generation and degeneration of things. (Octavio Paz )
Tomlinson, 76, is a painter as well as a poet, and his artist's eye serves him well in his poetry.... This book in fact records a well-planned poetic itinerary. (Frank Wilson Philadelphia Inquirer )
Reading Charles Tomlinson makes one acutely aware that there's a whole world outside—and inside too—just waiting to be noticed, and that the more we notice, the more we are enriched. (Chicago Tribune )
A standout. (New York Sun )
Mr. Tomlinson is an eloquent poet of place...whose work combines visual exactitude with an uncommon gracefulness of expression. (The Economist )
Tomlinson's perfected style has been little imitated, but I predict it will come to be seen as one of the major achievements of late twentieth-century English verse. (Times Literary Supplement )
Tomlinson's poetry gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life. (William Carlos Williams )
A patient looker at landscape. (Willard Spiegelman )
A master of the craft, his poems have the finality of form which you find only among the first-rate. (Donald Hall )
He is fascinated—with his eyes open: a lucid fascination—at the universal busyness, the continuous generation and degeneration of things. (Octavio Paz )
Tomlinson, 76, is a painter as well as a poet, and his artist's eye serves him well in his poetry.... This book in fact records a well-planned poetic itinerary. (Frank Wilson Philadelphia Inquirer )
Reading Charles Tomlinson makes one acutely aware that there's a whole world outside—and inside too—just waiting to be noticed, and that the more we notice, the more we are enriched. (Chicago Tribune )
A standout. (New York Sun )
Mr. Tomlinson is an eloquent poet of place...whose work combines visual exactitude with an uncommon gracefulness of expression. (The Economist )
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Winner of the third annual New Criterion Poetry Prize, Skywriting and Other Poems is a triumphant book.
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