How to Laugh

by Champion, Miles

• ISBN13: 9780976161271
• ISBN10: 0976161273
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-10-14
• Publisher: Adventures in Poetry

Summary

"There really is an intelligence to these that creates a texture unlike any other; I canrs"t yet describe it but it has to do with variable motions and rhythms, time signatures almost, that strike me as always alert, always attentive, always capable."-William Fuller"These poems are all inviting, and it seems to me thatrs"s an amazingly rare quality in poems, and even this old Brit submits to the pleasure they give. . . . Therers"s radiance from all these poems."-John Wilkinson"Miles Champion uses just the necessary words, and puts them in interesting places: definitely hard to film."-Tom Raworth"Walls"Walls give bound to a susceptible formalismSpring bends the show of things to a brain-like sourceSigns of rust abandon a whistle or paint chipProblems are prefigured like flowersRoofs frisk in the airBridges flip an aesthetic switchLeaves transfigure maples and aldersDust comes into earExtremities milling aboutMiles Champion moved to New York City from London in 2002. His other books of poetry include Sore Models , Facture , Eventually , and Three Bell Zero .