The Elektra Poems - Softcover

Marshfield, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856460850 ISBN 13: 9780856460852

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, 1982

Synopsis

Alan Marshfield's first major collection brings together poems written over twenty years. As the title implies many of his poems relate, however obliquely, to an idea of the feminine. Male and female polarities set the imaginative field in which he explores tensions between the physical and the metaphysical. His meditations on death and history are especially powerful. 'This erudite and inventive poet is someone who has slipped through the net of our reputation makers...he has style and imagination', wrote Peter Porter on his pamphlet "Mistress' (1972)". "The Elektra Poems" confirms this sense of his accomplishment.

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About the Author

Alan Marshfield was born in Portsmouth in 1933. He read English at King's College, London. 'Dragonfly' and 'Mistress' (both 1972) are his previous publications; he has also contributed translations of Greek epigrams to 'The Greek Anthology' (Penguin Classics) and of Thai poems to 'The Elek Book of Oriental Verse'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856460850
• ISBN 13: 9780856460852
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80