In the Quick of Time: Poems

In his essay The Poetry of the Present, D. H. Lawrence states, The quivering nimble hour of the present, this is the quick of Time The quick of the universe is the pulsating, carnal self, mysterious and palpable.

In the Quick of Time echoes Lawrences placement of the writer in time, and the poems of this collection strive to catch the fullness of a self at once mysterious and palpable. These verses speak of tensions that reflect the planet we all inhabit while they revel in arts playful re...