Terms to Be Met (Yale Series of Younger Poets) [Hardcover]

Mr. George Bradley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 10, 1986 | Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets (Book 81)

Poems consider the stars, space and time, travel, nature, the imagination, perception, human cruelty, and death.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Merrill compares Bradley, the 81st winner in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, to Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and Constantin Cavafy. Deservedly high praise, not only because Bradley is a poet of serious aims but because of his coolness, his elegance, his objectivity. His language is studied, precise and unmetaphorical, a music that suggests his influences without imitating them. Like Moore, he focuses on the empirical world. Like Cavafy, his imagination encompasses vast sweeps of history. Like Stevens, he enthrones the idea of the mind. Yet he outpaces these three in his studies of advanced physics; some of his poems seem to give new dimension to time and existence. Taken together, this collection stands as a tribute to man's achievement and ingenuity as artist, builder, technocrat and thinker. This is an exceedingly fine work.
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From Library Journal

In the manner of Marianne Moore or Wallace Stevens, Bradley is a master of the aesthetic poem, meditating on such subjects as the Adriatic Sea, the Himalayas, the cities of Florence and Alexandria, antimatter, elephants, and stars. He writes gracefully in a variety of forms: free verse, syllabic verse, sonnets, and two concrete or emblem poems, one in the shape of a globe, the other in the shape of an hourglass. Every poem is a quest for newness: "Antimatter," for example, presents a world where "images are reversed, where bankers dress/In pin-striped red, and fast women all wear blue." Never commonplace or obvious, Bradley is a poet's poet, insisting that true poems always exist "here, at the margins of the mind, where we must live." Recommended for all larger collections. Daniel L. Guillory, English Dept., Millikin Univ., Decatur, Ill.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 67 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (September 10, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300035985
• ISBN-13: 978-0300035988
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,507,894 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars based on one poem, March 1, 2008

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This review is from: Terms to Be Met (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (Paperback)

A friend just sent me one poem from this book---"Leaving Kansas City." That poem captures something about Kansas City that hasn't been said as well since Edward Dahlberg wrote "Because I Was Flesh" in 1959. It's something impossible to explain to anyone who didn't grow up there.
"Leaving Kansas City" gets even better when it gets beyond Kansas City, into the territory that cross-country drivers headed for Colorado or California used to drive by night because there's "nothing to see," before air travel made it possible never to see it. I hope the other poems in the book are as good as this one.