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Imagination Verses is a moving and accomplished book of real lyric poetry. Hailed as a modern masterpice it is made available here in a new expanded UK edition. Rarely does a poet bring such talent and experience together in a single volume, it is a book of wonderous possiblities, warm, engaging and truly magical.
List of contents
- Preface
- Imagination Verses
- Home World
- From a Distance I Can See
- I am Depressed without Your Pencil Too
- Night Train to Domestic Living Arrangements
- Not on My Seashore
- Ode on the End
- Bi-coastal Fleshings
- Fin de Siècle Go-betweens
- The Wingèd Words
- Ode on the Son
- Ten Still Petals
- Underlying Assumptions
- After First Figure
- Studio Life
- Club Life
- Helena & the Regional Boys
- Into the Bedroom
- The Removal of Enlightenment Safeguards
- During this Revolution
- Ode to Protest
- The Ballad of Her rePossession
- Firstly
- Secondly
- Thirdly
- Fourthly
- Finally
- Ode to the Man in the Mire of Babylon
- When in Rome
- Cell #103
- The Right to Counsel
- The Right to Remain Silent
- Life Policy
- The Nuptial Life
- Kalypso Facto
- Muse Couplings
- Neither Fish Nor Foul
- Dear J
- Cast of Shadows
- Duet #1 Wordsworth
- Duet # 2 Keats
- The Bad Choices Spy on Us Girls
- Wake
- The Waver in the Orbit of Uranus Becomes Unexplainable
- Ode on the Particle
- Three Graces
- Anthony
- Paul
- Steve
- Today my mind became an elegy...
- Lucky So and So
- Though Crowded
- Once Over
- Line of Descent
- Ode to Grief
- Ten Prolegomena to Heartbreak
- Wreath of a Similar Year
About the author
Jennifer Moxley was born in 1964 and grew up in San Diego, California. She edited The Impercipient magazine and with her partner, Steve Evans, The Impercipient Lecture Series. Since 1997, she has served as poetry editor for The Baf¿er magazine. In addition to her US, Canadian, and British publications, her poetry has been translated into Norwegian, Czech, Swedish and French. She lives in Orono, Maine where she works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine.
