Kelpers
Claude Rawson, 17 June 1982
Airborn/Hijos del Aire
by Octavio Paz and Charles Tomlinson.
Anvil, 29 pp., £1.25, April 1981,0 85646 072 9 Show More
by Octavio Paz and Charles Tomlinson.
Anvil, 29 pp., £1.25, April 1981,
“... reduction. It shows the poet responding to the thrust of lines and angles, not watching them, as Richard Eberhart watched the bones of his Groundhog, ‘like a geometer’, but catching essential shape even as it resides in driving energy. Tomlinson’s poem recalls Eberhart’s, and also Ted Hughes’s ‘View of a Pig’, where the ‘view’ is neither ... ”