Compositional Bonbons Placate

by Champion, Miles

• ISBN13: 9781857541373
• ISBN10: 1857541375
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Compositional Bonbons Placate, Miles Champion's first full-length collection, is the work of a poet continually finding new directions, new methods. His concern with a poetry in which the signifier is not overwhelmed by the signified suggests L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry, yet the poems-while not conventional-are always emotionally accessible, exploring a range of forms through language poignant but unabashed. The poetry of Tom Raworth and John Ashbery is a visible influence; other pieces take their bearings from the work of Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, Ray DiPalma. Champion never imitates: everything is made new, becomes grist for the dialectical mill.

Table of Contents

Flange Gears	p. 9
Blue Bag (Musette)	p. 11
Shopworn Notions	p. 12
The Healing Festival	p. 13
I Have a Paintbrush in my Hand to Colour a Triangle	p. 16
Bel Air	p. 19
Ink Stick and Water Cup	p. 23
Transcendental Express	p. 24
Tam-Tam	p. 26
Crush this Horn	p. 27
Mango Stilb	p. 33
From Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope	p. 34
We Have Triangles	p. 38
To Jean Helion	p. 40
Lenny's Pennies	p. 41
Local Colour	p. 44
Three Sonnets and a Kleenex for Matt Hodges	p. 46
First Conversation with the Plaster Casters of Chicago	p. 50
Butterfly Knot	p. 51
Soft Shoe	p. 57
Forensic Asperities Docking	p. 59
January	p. 60
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