Dog Latin, Norman Morrissey : book review

Title: Dog Latin, Norman Morrissey : book review
Creator: Beard, Margot
Date: 2007
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6115
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003828
Description: I have only seen one earlier collection of Morrissey's - his slim volume Seasons (1999). Therein he revealed his enjoyment and interest in haiku. Even the two longer poems in that volume were haiku-like, being brief self-contained stanzas grouped under a single title. His new volume, Dog Latin, consists of sixty short poems primarily concerned with man and nature. A number of these are haiku-like in their brevity ("Edgar on Inclusive Fitness," "Setting Ratbane," "Adam Again"), although they too often do not amount to more than post-it like notes. ("This habit / of holding habits to the wind / -me" is the sum total of the poem "Adam Again.") The epigraph to the whole collection is the final stanza of Robert Frost's "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things," which suggests both Morrissey's interest in the apparently unconsidered minutiae of natural objects and beings, and, it would seem, an admiration of Frost's deceptively plain, unmannered style.
Format: 3 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Beard, M.M. (2007) Dog Latin, Norman Morrissey: book review. English in Africa, 34 (1). pp. 177-179.

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