Outram's latest and perhaps most accomplished book, "Hiram and Jenny," is a good place to begin an exploration of Outram's writing. It is a cohesive book, not a collection of random poems. At its core are man and woman, the multitudinous couple, sitting at the water's edge and leading lives which, like those of Adam and Eve, contain the whole of mankind -- every thought, every war, every discovery, every death. At work in Outram's poems is that creature derided in so much of our accepted literature: the moralist, the person ...
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Outram's latest and perhaps most accomplished book, "Hiram and Jenny," is a good place to begin an exploration of Outram's writing. It is a cohesive book, not a collection of random poems. At its core are man and woman, the multitudinous couple, sitting at the water's edge and leading lives which, like those of Adam and Eve, contain the whole of mankind -- every thought, every war, every discovery, every death. At work in Outram's poems is that creature derided in so much of our accepted literature: the moralist, the person who, in the simplest terms, is concerned with how we behave. In many of the poems, a casual reader might be deceived by the humour, by the cartoon-like slang of Hiram and Jenny's speech, but Outram is never merely whimsical. Behind the wit are nagging unfashionable questions about body and soul, intimations of God in nature, assertions of the ineluctable power of love which binds us to the fabric of the universe.'
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Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. 136 p. Audience: General/trade. A near fine to fine copy in pictorial wraps with slight amount of shelf wear; 1st printing, 8vo., 136 pages.,
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