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The Sixty-Four Seasons By James Russell Oleander Press Framed by the 64 hexagrams of the Chinese Book of Changes called I Ching, The Sixty-Four Seasons describes with frequent reflective asides the decline and aftermath of a relationship, within the loose narrative of a man and a woman, and then a man alone, on a train journey. Then follows a diverse set of poems written since that sequence. As a whole, the book negotiates a number of voices and personal narratives of living in 'the weather of the giant's thumb', across a field of reference stretching from academic philosophy to Bob Dylan and the Beverley Sisters. Aiming at the no-man's-land between the epistemic playfulness of early Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery, and the crafted forms and unillusioned realism of Philip Larkin, these poems reach a populous and colourful target.
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