Swimming Chenango Lake by Charles Tomlinson, ed. by David Morley Mircea Dinescu Glue is often disturbing but

Glue is often disturbing but is also ultimately life-affirming

was published in China in 2011

these charged and challenging poems never shy from confrontation

He spent his writing life not so much swimming against the tide as ignoring the stream’s existence… He was one of those by whom the language lives

but returning us by its end to a place both resolved and transformed

Swimming Chenango Lake by Charles Tomlinson, ed. by David Morley Mircea Dinescu Glue is often disturbing butWilliam Carlos Williams valued Charles Tomlinsons poetry: He has divided his line according to a new measure learned, perhaps, for a new world. It gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life. Of all the poets of his generation, Charles Tomlinson was most alert to English and translated poetry from other worlds. The Mexican poet Octavio Paz admired how he saw the world as event He is fascinated with his