subsequent development, this search is externalized into investigations of everyday phenomena, as when the poem "Linen" reveals the "tangled cordage" of a loom before.Light will fall on linen simply, as it would
On glass, or silverware, or water.
At their most successful, these poems make a virtue of understatement, employing simple formal structures (typically unrhymed, three-to-five beat lines arranged in regular stanzas) and straightforward statement that acts as a foil for moments of quiet boldness.
from Bookslut: Collected Poems of Ciaran Carson
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