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Raymond Oliver His Book of Hours
Raymond Oliver

128 pages, 4.25 x 5.5 inches
Wraparound four color soft cover. First edition.
ISBN 978-0-9740895-5-3
Phineas, Portsmouth, NH
Smyth-sewn bound.
Design by Susan Kress Hamilton.

$20.00 (includes shipping and handling)

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“Ray Oliver's poems are like none others I have read.”

-- Thom Gunn 

The art of the short poem requires of the poet intensity of focus and verbal economy. The traditional craft of meter and rhyme, in good hands, makes both possible simultaneously: the craft discovers the semantic information hidden in the syllables of common words while capitalizing on the natural syntactic music of the words as sounds. Bringing these features of language—the backbone of rhythm and the flesh of sound—into right proportion produces virtual incarnation. Indeed, the art of the short poem is an art of memory, personal and collective, that transcends the poet.

The poetry of Raymond Oliver exemplifies the art of the short poem. Composed in a newly invented form Oliver calls triads, Raymond Oliver His Book of Hours explores moments of the past through the craft of the short poem; the result is a book of liturgical and lyrical intensity that overflows the limits of form in recognition of even greater good.

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