Recalibrating and Other Poems

Christopher Norris Information and Pricing978-1-64317-389-4 (paperback, $19.95); 978-1-64317-390-0 (PDF, $9.99); 978-1-64317-391-7 (EPUB, $9.99) © 2022 by Parlor Press. 202 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying ‘Why should not poetry combine/Keen intellect and singing line’?’ Christopher Norris asks, defending Empson—a writer with whom he expresses and reveals a fascinating affinity. Exploring the relationship between poetry, literary criticism, theory, and philosophy, Norris has the earned authority of an expert in all four fields. Yet there’s a disarming playfulness in his engagement with the reader, and he makes complex argument memorably musical by mining the resources of meter and rhyme. Whether he is addressing Hobbes in a verse-letter or using dramatic monologue to inhabit the minds of others (historical entities such as Descartes, Turner, Empson; fictional characters such as Wordsworth’s leech-g