The Guardian
Modernist poet whose work is considered hard to grasp but rewarding for the reader who persists The poetry of JH Prynne, who has died aged 89, has been called opaque, hermetic, impenetrable, forbidding even, and at times it was all of these. But it also sang. To read his Kitchen Poems (1968), The White Stones (1969) or The Oval Window (1983) is to encounter a writer for whom sound and sense were never separable. As Robert Potts wrote in the Guardian : “Prynne is hard-going, off-putting and much disliked by many more traditional writers; he is also, when one gets into him, so good that he changes the way you think and feel.” To a light led sole in pit of, this by slap-up barter of an arm rest cap, on stirrup trade in crawled to many bodies, uncounted. Talon up crude oil-for-food, incarnadine incarcerate, get foremost a track rocket, rapacious in heavy investment insert tool this way up. And so, then, the magnetic influence of Venus sweeps its shiver into the heart/brain or hypothalamus, we are still here, I look steadily at nothing. “The gradient of the decrease may be de- termined by the spread in intrinsic lumin- osities” – the ethereal language of love in brilliant suspense between us and the hesitant arc. Yet I need it too and keep one hand in my pocket & one in yours, waiting for the first snow of the year. Continue reading...
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