Porlock Revisited and Other Poemson Literary Themes Sculptor Carolyn is a woman answering

Carolyn is a woman answering a creative calling from childhood

where he was raised by his Welsh grandparents

and Fern Hill

but into the dynamics of creativity itself – its tensions

Porlock Revisited and Other Poemson Literary Themes Sculptor Carolyn is a woman answeringThese are poems about a great range of English language poets and novelists. They vary widely in voice or viewpoint; some (like the Milton, Hardy, Pound and Kafka pieces) are imagined as spoken by the author concerned while others (for instance the poems about Jonathan Swift, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Marianne Moore) see those figures addressed, discussed, sometimes challenged, and occasionally parodied.