Customs Declarations:: Selected, Collected Poems, Volume Five: 2014-2017 - Softcover

Trott, James Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997873779 ISBN 13: 9780997873771

Publisher: Oak and Yew Press, 2018

Synopsis

Customs Declarations is the fifth volume of the Selected, Collected Poems of James Howard Trott. As the seventh book of his poetry published under the Oak and Yew Press imprint, it has as usual caused contention among the critics. A few samples: “The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.” -- Samuel Johnson “The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known; but, few as they are, they can be made no more; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.” -- Samuel Johnson again. “True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.”– Alexander Pope. “That’s more truth than poetry.” -- J. Arthur Hanford. “Better be modern than minor.” -- Charles Williams “This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses.” -- Dorothy Sayers Readers being sought for further opinions. No prerequisites. Possibly helpful might be an eye and ear for what is beautiful and true, a love of the abstruse and reverberant, and an X-ray imagination. Experts need not apply, except in plain white envelopes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oak and Yew Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997873779
• ISBN 13: 9780997873771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106