A New Game

Peter Scaccos sixth volume of verse A New Game brings together fifteen new poems with twenty-one of the authors finest pieces selected from previous volumes. Mr. Scacco continues to reveal his intimacy with art in ekphrastic poems such as Endymion and Old master drawing his kinship with nature and cosmic forces as in Orion and pensive reminiscences of familiar places as in Walking with ghosts and A menu. As always he deals with the constant themes of uncertainty and the encroachment of age. As he has done in his previous books Mr. Scacco has created several woodcuts to accompany his work giving it an added aesthetic dimension.