A Little World Made Cunningly
Ebook
A Little World Made Cunningly brings together the author's best poems written over the past ten years in free-form verse and traditional forms, including the sonnet. Many of the poems rely on classroom experiences garnered from a teaching career of fifty-seven years. Family memories account for other poems, and the author's reactions to artistic creations, especially paintings and ceramics, inspired many of the pieces. An undercurrent of religious sensibility is rarely far from the poems, but creed and doctrine never comprise subject matter. This is a collection for multiple readers, an audience not far from ordinary experience.
“The poet John Donne would give George Klawitter a big hug if he were to read this book. Not only is the title borrowed from the lines of one of Donne’s sonnets, but the overall theme is consistent with Donne’s too. More importantly, Klawitter is also a master of the sonnet form. There are odes and elegies as well as love poems thinly veiled in religious imagery. Donne and Klawitter should both be proud.”
—Donald Cellini, author of Outside the Garden / Fuera del jardín
“George Klawitter’s latest collection of elegant formal poems puts to the test a lifetime’s worth of the emotional, spiritual, and erotic ties that bind him to poets of the past—like John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins—to the students, family, and loved ones of his American heartland and to God. With impish wit and enticing imagery, Klawitter engages us in conversations we will return to again and again.”
—Alan Altimont, associate professor of English literature and creative writing, St. Edward’s University
- Title: A Little World Made Cunningly
- Author: George Klawitter
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9798385212071, 9798385212057, 9798385212064
- Resource ID: LLS:9798385212071
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-20T18:02:55Z