A Gathering of Ways is John Matthias' first collection of poems
since the publication of his warmly received Northern Summer
collection in 1985. The book consists of three long poems dealing
with the geography, geology, prehistory, and history of two places
closely identified with Matthias' work, the East Anglian region of
Britain and the American Midwest, and a third place that provides
the book with a new and deeply resonant setting: those parts of
southern France and northern Spain through which run the famous
pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela. \u201cAn East Anglian
Diptych\u201d explores those parts of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and
Norfolk linked by three rivers and by those ancient paths and
tracks known as ley lines which connect locality and locality and
time with time. \u201cFacts From an Apocryphal Midwest\u201d
explores another group of trails that began as prehistoric paths
down which copper from Lake Superior was carried from the early
days of the mound-builders. Despite the historical backdrop of
these poems, both bring the reader into the present in unexpected
ways, preparing him or her for the strange and visionary \u201cA
Compostela Diptych,\u201d winner of the Poetry Society of America's
George Bogin Memorial Award.
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