In Time and Place

In this major new collection John Hollander displays the elegance versatility and wit that mark him as perhaps the most urbane poet in America. In Time and Place features a generous offering of new verse an extended prose piece and a series of prose poems previously available only in a rare privately published edition. <P>The tightly rhymed quatrains of the new poems demonstrate once again the freedom Hollander achieves through mastery of form. The consummate control with which he writes in memoriam to a lost love and a time of absence gives him opportunities to move through dimensions most poets never see. His purgatorial mock-journal--dwelling on loss and gain on difference and effacement on places and the place of writing--leads into a sequence of captivating prose poems where imagination centers on the word and language celebrates its own creation.