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M and Other Poems

M and Other Poems

by John Peck

Imprint: TriQuarterly

90 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

Paperback
9780810150560
Published: October 1996

$18.95

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John Peck is a member of the remarkable generation of poets, including Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, and James McMichael, who studied with Yvor Winters at Stanford in the 1960s. His recent work expresses a sharp sense of vulnerability and of the tenacity of human life, both natural and moral.

Notes and Acknowledgments
Woods Burial
Autumn Syllabics on Themes from Horace and the Chinese Masters
So the Name of That Place Was Taberah
Night-Blooming Cereus
Anasazi, Ancient Enemies
Getting at What Happens
Wine of the Solitaries
Little Fugue
Occam's Razor Pledges No Hostages to Fortune
Monument
Attic Canzonetta
Soundless Tune in the Jewel
First Things
Vestigium Pedis
Hanging Figures
Frère Jacques, Frère Antoine
Polybius
Igitur, Itaque, Donque, Donc
Tombeau for Vernon Watkins
Trio Threaded on Lines from the Parthian Hymns

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Viaticum
For a Small Chorus
Ave
From the Headland at Cumae
Memorandum
Relay Octets

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John Peck was born in Pittsburgh in 1941. He taught literature at American and Swiss universities and trained as an analytical psychologist in Zurich. His collection The Broken Blockhouse Wall (Carcanet, 1979) won the Prix de Rome, and his other works include Argura (Sheep Meadow, 1998). He lives in Massachusetts.

"Peck has established himself . . . as a major poet, opening up territory no one else has attempted."
--Clive Wilmer, Times Literary Supplement

"The gift for making language itself into feeling rather than merely feeling's vehicle is just that, a gift. Peck has it." --Poetry

"Peck is one of the best poets in the country, and M is his masterpiece." --Notre Dame Review

"Peck's densely allusive and highly cerebral work rewards the rigorous reading that it demands." --Publishers Weekly

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