John Matthias

Living with a Visionary John Matthias

In his afterword, Igor Webb writes, The lament, uttered when love and death are most closely bound, is something like an essential accessory to mortality. . . . Living with a Visionary is the poet's account of his, and (and his wife) Diana's, descent into hell (from effects of Parkinson's disease). . . . But it's in Some of Her Things, a fable in the form of a long prose poem, . . . that Matthias most powerfully, and poignantly, deploys his language. . . . it is a courtly threnody for lost time.

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