The Seasons (Adventures in Poetry)

"Gilfillan is a storyteller whose appeal is more mystical than realistic." - ALA BOOKLIST Gilfillan's -observations, quotations, etymologies, and classical forms are constructed by equal parts scholar and aesthete. He is a master of Low Distance. Gilfillan watches and then watches again. His writing is workman-like in the sense of what words are like, and luminous in its experimental directions."If John Clare had toured the United States with Oscar Wilde, their notebooks, twisted together in a tornado and edited by Audubon and Escoffier, might have read like these poems: evocative, sophisticated, and as ever-in-the-present as memory must always be." - Tom RaworthMerrill Gilfillan is the author of five books of poems and several books of prose essays.