The Color Wheel: Poems (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) - Softcover

Steele, Prof Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801849527 ISBN 13: 9780801849527

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Through his collections of poems Timothy Steele has earned the reputation as a highly regarded poet who continue to work in meter. This volume brings together 35 new poems that extend the scope and deepen the spirit of his previous work. While always faithful to the richness and complexity of experience, the poems in The Color Wheel aim to be clear and accessible. They blend imaginistic detail and reflection and bring to contemporary subjects what Steele calls "the preservative virtues of formal care".

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About the Author

Timothy Steele is the author of two previous collections of poems, Uncertanties and Rest and Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems, and of a book of literary criticism, Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter. He is professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles.

From the Back Cover

Through his widely praised collections of poems Timothy Steele has earned the reputation as one the most highly regarded poets born since World War II who continue to work in meter. Now Steele brings together thirty-five new poems that extend the scope and deepen the spirit of his previous work.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801849527
• ISBN 13: 9780801849527
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80