Harrison, Joseph: Shakespeare's Horse

Shakespeare's Horse by Joseph Harrison (The Waywiser Press, paperback) Publication Date: March 12, 2015 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Joseph Harrison's third collection of poetry displays all the formal adroitness that characterized his two previous books, now applied to a greater range of subjects and poetic genres. Poems that speak to our current condition and poems in various historical settings, evocations of Italian and Latin precursors as well as English and American ones, and forms that range from short lyrics to longer meditations in blank verse and terza rima combine to produce a volume of extraordinary variety and scope. SHAKESPEARE'S HORSE blends the past with the present, the personal with the universal, and a resonant music with an idiosyncratic vision that sees the world afresh. "Joseph Harrison's poetry is modern without being modernist. That is, he employs the tools and materials of traditional poetry to construct a kind of verse that is appealingly new, yet never trans