Outsing the Howling

Poetry. A collection of new poems by the late Jonathan Griffin (1906-1990), author of In Time of Selected Poems 1963-74, 1975, and Collected Poems (National Poetry Foundation, Orono, Maine, 1989). Of the latter, Carl Rakosi "The National Poetry Foundation deserves a medal for bringing out the Collected Poems of Jonathan Griffin. He is a major discovery." George Oppen wrote of Griffin's "The syntax! Moves of its own force, moves in the force of the world, it restores light and space to poetry. It is what the poetry of England has lacked for--how long?" The poet, critic, and anthologist Eliot Weinberger wrote that Griffin was "one of Britain's secret treasures, perhaps the finest unknown poet in our language today." Griffin was also one of the foremost translators of modern Portuguese and French poetry and was honored by both countries.