Poems 1980-2008 by Jan Owen

Poems 1980-2008

by Jan Owen

John Leonard Press, 2008
First edition, Signed
ISBN 9780977578788
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
minor edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to corners and covers, signed by author on half title page, uncreased spine (see photographs)

“This retrospective by Jan Owen includes a majority of the poems form her first five volumes, with some revisions.  Gathered with them is a book-length collection of new poetry, Laughing in Greek.
A large and intricate world is on display, present in capsule on page 1 in ‘First Love’.  This poem sets going a motif of the airy light and shadow cast by memory of adult and childhood relationships.   It also raises the lure of knowledge: Owen’s verse is infused with the sciences, and with art. Philosophy and history.  Her interest is in the world itself, and the words for it.  When she wires a poem that dwells on a place or a painting – or a memory – it is not as a tourist impressionist but as a thinker and precise sensualist.”