Swimming at Midnight – Selected Shorter Poems Matthias Paperback 9780804009850

Swimming at MidnightSelected Shorter Poems\nAuthor(s): John Matthias\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Swallow Press\nISBN-13: 9780804009850, 978-0804009850\nSynopsis\nSwimming at Midnight collects the short and middle-length poems from John Matthias's earlier books together with twenty poems that have previously appeared only in magazines. It is published simultaneously with Beltane at Aphelion, which includes all of Matthias's longer poems. The two books together represent some thirty years of his work.\n The poems in Swimming at Midnight range from early lyrics written in American during the late 1960s to meditative poems dealing with historical, geographical and cultural themes deriving from Matthias's years in England in the seventies and eighties; they include the epistolary poems from Turns, \""Poem for Cynouai\"" from Crossing, \""A Wind in Roussillon\"" from Northern Summer, and the formal experiments engaging issues of poetics and met""