Anthony Etherin: Knit Ink, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"Knit Ink (and Other Poems) illuminates the range of formal poetry, from the traditional to the experimental; from the simple to the highly complex. By employing both classical forms and alphabetical restrictions, often in combination, it explores the varying extents to which meaning submits to linguistic structure and music. Some of the poems study special or simplified cases of established literary restrictions (anagrams, palindromes) and poetic forms (triolets, sonnets); some create their own constraint (aelindrome, aelinscapes); while others are structural indulgences - tests of technical complexity, whose poetry lies as much in the grandeur of their architecture as in the content of their words. A series of four books whose composition took over a decade, Knit Ink (and Other Poems) sees these four books combined in a single edition for the first time"--