The
benefit of a book of new and selected poems from what a poet has written over a
lifetime is threefold:
You
can see the development and progression of the poet’s work from youth to
maturity.
You
can understand the themes and ideas the poet has grappled with over the course
of decades.
And
you can grasp how the poet replays and struggles with a few common themes in
new, and often very different, ways and how the themes and ideas are viewed
from different chronological perspectives.
And
so it is with Mark Jarman’s Bone
Fires: New and Selected Poems, published in 2011. The volume meets and
exceeds all expectations for what a collection like this should be.
To
continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
Photography by Lilla Frerichs via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
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