Michael Anania. Wakefield, R.I.: As...

Michael Anania. Wakefield, R.I.: Asphodel, 1999
Since the publication of his first whirl of poetry, The Color of Dust, in 1970 Michael Anania has consistently revisited the same themes: transience; qualities of light; the nature of Midwestern urban space; the intersections of history and known places; the relation of language to the tangible world of things. The elegiac, too, has plant its way into all of his collections. These themes have been pursu with an increasingly refined establish of poetic techniques, based upon image more than statement, forward implication more than ...