The seventy-eight poems in this collection--from four lines to six
pages in length--were composed over a period of almost forty years
and can be considered episodes of a memoir, an autobiography in
verse documenting the author's life, loves and travels.
The dictionary defines "divagation" as a wandering or a
digression. Therefore many of the poems in this collection evoke
the author's voyages that have taken him to forty-seven countries
around the world.
"Divagations" is also a virtual handbook of poetic forms ranging
from the elegance of the Spenserian Stanza to free verse. There are
ballads and ballades, odes and ottava rima, rondels and rondeaux.
Like many English-language poets, the author has a fondness for the
sonnet; included is a sequence of twenty-four love sonnets. He has
also included three sestinas, one in French. A long, narrative poem
in blank verse recounts the adventures of one Poor Fisher, who
travels to the Caribbean and attempts to establish a new religion
with himself as its prophet.
Ronald W. Kenyon studied English literature at the University of
Michigan and Stanford and became familiar with the entire history
of English poetry, from Anglo-Saxon alliteration to the modernism
of William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound; this
entire legacy has left its mark on his poetry. The reader will also
find allusions to modern Spanish-language poets, notably Pablo
Neruda and Gabriel Garcia Lorca.
Included in an appendix are extensive annotations by Catherine
Jagor, a Paris-based poet who has known the author for over a
quarter of a century and is intimately familiar with his work.
"After reading this collection, you will be changed, enriched
and inspired." Jean-Pierre Collet, author of "Le Chant du Naif" and
"Harmonies.""
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