Robert Adamson. Black Water: approa...

Robert Adamson. Black Water: approaching Zukofsky Rose Bay, Australia: Brandi & Schlesinger, 1999

In Robert Adamson's first work Canticles of the Skin (1970) the greatest in number striking poems are confessional, and pass by the and of drug use and juvenile familys in vivid detail, deadpan humor, and with a nervous capacity of work From the beginning, his rhyme chafes against a settled persona, and against the trappings meant to delineate a self: in this perception he writes with a restless--and sometimes ironic--self-consciousness. A more Romantic strain emerg in his metrical composition by the mid-1970s, and