Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Great Regulars: The poems here are made up of short couplets

dominated by a haunting use of monosyllables, so that sentences are slowed right down and the gradual unfolding of syntax allows possible meanings to emerge and flicker past: "Through swing//door after swing/door I follow//him until/where he is to//leave me as I leave/well after midnight//it is so quiet in/the hospital . . ."

from Charles Bainbridge: The Guardian: Until Before After by Ciaran Carson--review

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