These poems the first to appear after Sheppard completed his epic Twentieth Century Blues - riff off other works of art, as both text and commentary. The materials selected, many of them by European artists, are unexpected new cultural referents for Sheppard: from the visual works of Charlotte Saloman to Hugo Dachinger, from particular drafts and poems by Anne Sexton and Veronica Forrest-Thomson, from surreal 'translations' of Sephardic songs to investigations of the ode and the anti-poem. Familiar Sheppard themes emerge in ...
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These poems the first to appear after Sheppard completed his epic Twentieth Century Blues - riff off other works of art, as both text and commentary. The materials selected, many of them by European artists, are unexpected new cultural referents for Sheppard: from the visual works of Charlotte Saloman to Hugo Dachinger, from particular drafts and poems by Anne Sexton and Veronica Forrest-Thomson, from surreal 'translations' of Sephardic songs to investigations of the ode and the anti-poem. Familiar Sheppard themes emerge in these borrowed contexts, from the Holocaust to September 11. The voice is quieter, but no less compelling, serious or jocular, the visual opportunities of page-space part of the poems' exacting design.
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