Collected Poems

Wisconsin Bookwatch, July, 2005

Collected Poems

David Constantine

Bloodaxe Books

c/o Dufour Editions, Inc.

Box 7, Chester Springs, PA 19425-0007

1852246677 $31.95 1-800-869-5677

Collected Poems is an anthology of three decades of poetry by award-winning poet David Constantine. Including work from seven previous titles and two limited editions, as well as a gallery of brand new poems, Collected Poems showcases the transformation of Constantine's gift and message over the years of his life. Poignant, sometimes sharply insightful, sometimes wistful and distant, the free-verses communicate their tales of varying length directly to the reader's heart and spirit. Absence: Absence is easy to imagine lasting / Always in a place / He was. Shall I visit again / Because it is a place I missed him in? // All's a museum now. You can watch a silent film / Of dockers freighting the big ships / Of the five oceans tucked in snug / Thirty-five miles inland. The living image.