Printed On Water

This Collection Of Gerry Looses Poetry Selects From Thirty Years Of Work. As Peter Manson Says In His Introduction To The Book: Almost Uniquely, Loose Unites A Linnaean Intoxication With Names With A Poets Critical Sense Of The Limits Of Language And Of Naming As A Process Of Setting Limits, Whether On Boundary-stones Marked In Ogham Or In The Restrictions Placed On Human Potential By Military Euphemism. That Loose Can Combine His Sense Of The Particular With An Equally Clear-eyed View Of The Larger Dimensions Of Landscape, History And Ethics Makes Him A Valued, Wise And Above All Useful Friend (i Can Barely See Further Than My Own Nose), And Makes These Poems - Detailed On Every Scale - A Varifocal Lens For Twenty-first Century Eyes.