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Idylls of the Nymphai from a Mantic Coracle is Harry Matthews' seventh poetry collection. In it the author takes us on a journey with the Nymphs from the vantage point of a mantic coracle. This, the poet explains, is a congenial vessel for prophetic utterance, a means of catching fish mid-river as much as landing poems that evoke a dreamy, pastoral world.
...There are 45 poems with rhyme scheme, irregularly grouped, that haunt us with images of Nature, its sunsets, rivers, fierce boreal wind and the unbearable absence of the Beloved...
...In this collection, Harry Matthews presents poems that are stark, intense, compact and driven...
CONTENTS
Dedication
ix Epigraph I
x Epigraph II
xi Epigraph III
xii Preface 1
1 Alseid 5
2 Auloniad 6
3 Potamides 7
4 Limos 8
5 Lampads 9
6 Erebus 10
7 Crinaeae 11
8 Hedone 12
9 Pan 13
10 Pegasides 15
11 Jason 16
12 Karpos 17
13 Kalamos 19
14 Pothos 20
15 Aurai 21
16 Pleiades 22
17 Hyades 23
18 Priapus 24
19 Arcadia 26
20 Naiad 29
21 Metapherein 30
22 Ceroessa 31
23 Patriarkhēs 32
24 Nephele 34
25 Limnad 35
26 Kakodaimones 37
27 Baubo 39
28 Hesperides 42
29 Prometheus 44
30 Lethe 45
31 Algea 55
32 Melinoë 62
33 Oceanids 67
34 Thespian Lion 71
35 Makhai 73
36 Boreas 74
37 Dodona 75
38 Eris 80
39 Oread 82
40 Ponos 85
41 Amphillogiai 88
42 Neikea 90
43 Logoi 93
44 Pseuda 94
45 πολύτροπος 96
Endnotes 101
About The Author 115
5.060" x 7.810"
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Pages
128
Print ISBN
978-1-80068-162-0
0.295 lbs
