Description

Kedging is John Matthias' first book of poems since his long New Selected Poems of 2004. The volume is divided into five parts: Post-Anecdotal includes short poems on autobiographical and elegiac themes; The Memoirists engages the lives and writings of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Edward John Trelawney, Frederick Rolfe, Celeste Albert, and Vernon Duke; The Co-translator's Dilemmas deals with Swedish poets, Swedish poems, and issues of translation; Laundry Lists and Manifestoes ranges from Homer and the Old Testament to Internet technology; Kedging in Time deals with the lives of several families in the context of British naval history; and The Back of the Book prints an essay called Kedging in Kedging in Time, which was commissioned by Chicago Review as a commentary on the final poem in the volume.