Watchfulness [Paperback]

Peter O'Leary (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 28, 2001

Poetry. In WATCHFULNESS, Peter O'Leary delves into arcane, biblical and mystical texts as well as the art of iconic architecture to deliver a new poetry. Here the center is "concealed in concealment" wherewith a new composition can be, in Duncan's powerful phrase, "made loose." Reminiscent of both Robert Duncan's "Passages" and Ronald Johnson's Ark, these verses draw influence from the aether of poesis itself, thus charting a thoroughly contemporary and soulful terrain.

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About the Author

Peter O’Leary has edited two volumes of Ronald Johnson’s poetry—To Do As Adam Did: Selected Poems (Talisman House) and The Shrubberies (Flood Editions)—and is the author of Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan & the Poetry of Illness.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil (October 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188147173X
• ISBN-13: 978-1881471738
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,946,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dazzling Debut, May 16, 2002

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This review is from: Watchfulness (Paperback)

Watchfulness is at once coherent in structure and accomplished in the particulars of its craft, which is a rare achievement in a first book. Peter has learned from poets such as Ronald Johnson and Louis Zukofsky an imagist aesthetic of crystalline condensation; the condensed gists of his verse are not isolated, but embedded in dazzling, architectonic structures of interrelation. Highly Recommended.