Poetry. The poems in this collection are concerned with the moods and forces that shape and destroy life. At the book's core, themes of silence, restlessness, loss, and growth form a patterned sequence, while images of birds, water, and darkness elegize both the personal and the historic. A CHRIST OF THE ICE--FLOES, Wevill's second book, is highly evolved and full of heavy, sensitive poems that foreshadow an inimitable body of work.
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Poetry. The poems in this collection are concerned with the moods and forces that shape and destroy life. At the book's core, themes of silence, restlessness, loss, and growth form a patterned sequence, while images of birds, water, and darkness elegize both the personal and the historic. A CHRIST OF THE ICE--FLOES, Wevill's second book, is highly evolved and full of heavy, sensitive poems that foreshadow an inimitable body of work.
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