The Breakage: Poems

by Maxwell, Glyn; Strachan, Pat

• ISBN13: 9780395963203
• ISBN10: 0395963206
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Summary

Glyn Maxwell's poems are adventures from the known to the unknown, seeming to take even more delight in the exploration than in the content of the lessons learned. A series of verse letters to the English poet Edward Thomas, killed in the First World War, anchors the book, but the variety of form and mood here -- from the mysteriously introspective to the overtly humorous -- is breathtaking. With this, his fourth collection of poems, Glyn Maxwell proves himself to be a contemporary master in the tradition of W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin, or even Robert Frost, whose playfulness he evokes in "Mr. F Gets Fit."

Author Biography

Glyn Maxwell teaches at Amherst College.

Table of Contents

The Breakage	p. 3
An August Monday	p. 4
As a Ghost Would Make You	p. 9
My Grandfather at the Pool	p. 10
England Germany	p. 12
Valentines at the Front	p. 13
June 31st, the Somme	p. 14
Letters to Edward Thomas	p. 15
Hilles, Edge	p. 29
The Ordeal	p. 30
Edward Wilson	p. 33
Hurry My Way	p. 34
October South Pleasant	p. 36
Calais	p. 37
Mooncalves	p. 38
Creak	p. 39
The Stunning	p. 41
Hide and Seek	p. 43
His First Minute	p. 44
The Heat Came Out	p. 45
Deep Sorriness Atonement Song	p. 46
Home from a Close Reading	p. 48
And Indians	p. 50
Back Gardens in Early Morning	p. 51
The Room	p. 54
Mr F Gets Fit	p. 56
The Elbow People	p. 58
Carnival Bahia	p. 60
The Fire-Ants	p. 61
The Flotilla	p. 62
Rio Negro	p. 66
Lullaby of the Thames	p. 68
For My Daughter	p. 69
The Rhymes	p. 70
Under These Lights	p. 71
On a Devon Road	p. 72
Portobello	p. 73
Alfie's Lullaby	p. 74
Cap d'Ail	p. 75
Dawn on the Midi	p. 79
Notes	p. 81
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