Selected Poems PG25 From initiation in an Augsburg

From initiation in an Augsburg workshop as a youth

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because a key job of any parent is to induct a child gently into the imperfect nature of everything

a street urchin with a talent for kicking a tin can

Selected Poems PG25 From initiation in an AugsburgJack Underwoods selection from Maurice Riordans work over the last forty years allows us to rediscover a poet whose musicality, wit and emotional acuity rank him as a leading poet of his and any generation. Responding to the imaginative range of Riordans preoccupations, Underwood creates a dynamic arrangement for poems rooted in particularities of time and place, yet enduring in their audacious inventions and pungent ironies. They are compelling in