Book description
Roger Langley's poems explore perception. They take their bearings
from forms as diverse as Renaissance hermeticism, a Greek vase,
Rauschenberg's painting, Bottom's dream, a green beetle. Here the
world may chime, like a building by Palladio, or disappear on a
parting wave as in a film by Bergman. Surprise and truth come
together. Things are both ordinary and vivid, distinct and universal.
Langley's poems take delight in the sound and sense of language: for
him, etymology can be revelation. In the interplay of word and object,
each poem attempts an epiphany.
