Balls for a One-Armed Juggler
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In a recent survey of Canadian poetry, Milton Wilson said of Irving Layton:
"I look forward to elaborate and fantastic visions of judgement, to wry subtle, even comic exploitations of his aging ego, and finally to the full poetic emergence of Layton the moralist and dramatist."
In BALLS FOR A ONE-ARMED JUGGLER, Layton has fulfilled these predictions made by one of Canada's most perceptive and intelligent critics. This is a book to pout beside Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS and Beaudelaire's FLOWERS OF EVIL as achieving an intense personal definition.
Layton asks in his forward: "What insight does the modern poet give us into the absolute evil of our time?" He believes the poet must remember "he addresses mankind at large, not small coteries of the frightened and sensitive" and that "there is a new dark knowledge waiting to be assimilated into the minds and consciences of those who are his contemporaries.
This volume is a distillation of Laton's previous ones. The same preoccupations are here - poetry, sex, society, evil - but they has been crystallized by an enlarged and more complex awareness as well as by a severe mastery of craft so that only the purest elements remain.
Regarded by many as this country's most substantial poet, Irving Layton has published sixteen volumes of original work, besides editing two anthologies of Canadian verse, the most recent of which is the very successful LOVE WHERE THE NIGHTS ARE LONG. His poems appeared in numerous Canadian, American, and English periodicals and have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French. In 1960 he received the Governor-General's Medal for his A RED CARPET FOR THE SUN and in the following year the President's Medal from the University of Western Ontario. He won a Canada Council award in 1959.
"I look forward to elaborate and fantastic visions of judgement, to wry subtle, even comic exploitations of his aging ego, and finally to the full poetic emergence of Layton the moralist and dramatist."
In BALLS FOR A ONE-ARMED JUGGLER, Layton has fulfilled these predictions made by one of Canada's most perceptive and intelligent critics. This is a book to pout beside Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS and Beaudelaire's FLOWERS OF EVIL as achieving an intense personal definition.
Layton asks in his forward: "What insight does the modern poet give us into the absolute evil of our time?" He believes the poet must remember "he addresses mankind at large, not small coteries of the frightened and sensitive" and that "there is a new dark knowledge waiting to be assimilated into the minds and consciences of those who are his contemporaries.
This volume is a distillation of Laton's previous ones. The same preoccupations are here - poetry, sex, society, evil - but they has been crystallized by an enlarged and more complex awareness as well as by a severe mastery of craft so that only the purest elements remain.
Regarded by many as this country's most substantial poet, Irving Layton has published sixteen volumes of original work, besides editing two anthologies of Canadian verse, the most recent of which is the very successful LOVE WHERE THE NIGHTS ARE LONG. His poems appeared in numerous Canadian, American, and English periodicals and have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French. In 1960 he received the Governor-General's Medal for his A RED CARPET FOR THE SUN and in the following year the President's Medal from the University of Western Ontario. He won a Canada Council award in 1959.
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