In many ways Rouflaquettes is a more personal collection than the
writer's last volume Dorset Street. Ian Burton has divided these
very direct and memorable poems into three sections, which are
flanked at the beginning of part one by a version of Jean Cocteau's
L'Ange Heurtebise, and at the end of the third part by a version of
some of Michelangelo's Sonnets to Tommaso de Cavalieri. The first
section is predominantly concerned with the poetry of place", that
is to say, landscapes with a particular significance for the writer
and irradiated by memory, whereas the second section is concerned
with people, friends and lovers, particularly those who have
disappeared", as the French say. The third section opens with a
group of autobiographical poems which form part of a longer work,
and is followed by a group of poems addressed to one particular
person, who appears in various artistic and historical disguises,
and all of these poems are qualified by the observation that
Everything personal rots; /Pack it in salt or ice."
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