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Poems that are beautifully understated impressions/reflections on episodes in the sudden mortal splendor that was Keats' brief life. An extended reflection on the fable of the modern poet's life as Keats lived it. Written in a series of blank-verse poems interspersed with fictional letters by Keats and by members of his circle, the book will be stunning to anyone who loves the art of writing.

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Clark captures the essence of the poet's style and spirit in a minimum of elegant and haunting words. --Los Angeles Times While the collection is an impressive display of Clark's ability to master many poetic voices, it is in the final section, a twelve-part deathbed (or after-death) reverie titled 'Echo and Variation, ' that the book truly moves beyond loving tribute and technical display to a lovely and sad look back by Keats at his life, lifting the book to a high level. --Publishers Weekly This superb book raises the possibility, unsettling for academic critics, that poems may make the best criticism. --Studies in Romanticism

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Tom Clark was the poetry editor of The Paris Review from 1963 to 1973, one of the prestigious journal's most important decades. He published his own collections of poetry exclusively with Black Sparrow Press. His numerous literary essays and reviews have appeared in publications including The New York Times, London Review of Books, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. He has also published six biographies of twentieth-century literary figures. Clark died in Berkeley, California, in 2018.

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