Full Description
In Between Two Windows, his first book of poems, Oli Hazzard takes language out to stretch and flex and bend itself into new shapes. Into the formal straits of sestinas, sonnets and pantoums stray palindromes, mirrored poems, anagrams, allusions and curiosities. His lyrics and satires dance in the spaces that open up between intention and expression, the moment when the horse attempts to throw its rider.
Contents
I
Moving In
The Inability to Recall the Precise Word for Something
True Romance
Rule of Thumb
Mid-Air
Apologia
Entre Chien et Loup
Home Poems
A Few Precepts
Some Shadows
Pantoum in Which Wallace Stevens Gives Me Vertigo
Two Versions of 'Fabliau of Florida'
Badlands
Four Landscapes
Glasnost
Solfege
A Week in the Life
Are We Not Drawn Onward, We Few, Drawn Onward to New Era?
Outside
Prelude to Growth
II
Sonnet
As Necessity Requires
Arrival
A Walking Bird
To Comprehend a Nectar
Carapace
The Asymmetric
Wyoming
In Absentia
A Later Stage of Discipline
With Hindsight
Three Summaries
Martedi Grasso
Manna
Old-Fashioned Uncouth Measurer
Sphinx
Leaving the City of Acupuncture
Kayak
Notes
