'Though unmarried I have had six children,' Walt Whitman claimed in
a letter late in his life. The title poem of Mark Ford's third
collection imagines the great poet's getting of these mysterious
children, of whom no historical trace has ever emerged. Conception
and extinction dominate this extraordinary new volume from one of
the country's most exciting poets; it includes a lament for the
passing of the passenger pigeon, a sestina on the Mau Mau
insurrection in Kenya (where the poet was born), a chance encounter
with a seventy-year-old Hart Crane in Greenwich Village, an elegy
for Mick Imlah (whose Selected Poems Ford has edited for Faber),
and a moving tribute to that weirdest of religious sects, the
Munster Anabaptists. Six Children is Ford's most formally varied
and historically wide-ranging volume. It is sure to win many new
admirers for a poet whose work has been championed by such as Helen
Vendler, John Bayley, Barbara Everett, and John Ashbery.
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