Serpentine

Serpentine: A mineral or rock consisting of a hydrous magnesium silicate, H4 M3 Si2 O9, and having usually a dull green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance, resembling a serpent's skin. It occurs usually in masses, which are sometimes foliated, sometimes fibrous ... Presence of iron may give it a red or brownish hue. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent & of a rich oil-green color. Serpentine results from the alteration of other magnesian minerals, esp. chrysolite, amphibole, & pyroxene, and is frequently found in large masses ... --Webster's, 1914; from a note preserved in the author's papers

Serpentine was first published in by Oasis Books, London, in 1985. It received little distribution and minimal notice at the time, somewhat to the author's distress, and the publisher's regret. It has never reappeared complete, although selections have appeared in subsequent compilations.

A collection of experimental prose texts--although the author forbade such a definition from appearing anywhere in the first edition, presumably in case it frightened off potential readers--Christopher Middleton described it as being a series of texts "on the nature of evil".

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Serpentine

Serpentine: A mineral or rock consisting of a hydrous magnesium silicate, H4 M3 Si2 O9, and having usually a dull green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance, resembling a serpent's skin. It occurs usually in masses, which are sometimes foliated, sometimes fibrous ... Presence of iron may give it a red or brownish hue. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent & of a rich oil-green color. Serpentine results from the alteration of other magnesian minerals, esp. chrysolite, amphibole, & pyroxene, and is frequently found in large masses ... --Webster's, 1914; from a note preserved in the author's papers

Serpentine was first published in by Oasis Books, London, in 1985. It received little distribution and minimal notice at the time, somewhat to the author's distress, and the publisher's regret. It has never reappeared complete, although selections have appeared in subsequent compilations.

A collection of experimental prose texts--although the author forbade such a definition from appearing anywhere in the first edition, presumably in case it frightened off potential readers--Christopher Middleton described it as being a series of texts "on the nature of evil".

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Serpentine

Serpentine

by Christopher Middleton
Serpentine

Serpentine

by Christopher Middleton

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Serpentine: A mineral or rock consisting of a hydrous magnesium silicate, H4 M3 Si2 O9, and having usually a dull green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance, resembling a serpent's skin. It occurs usually in masses, which are sometimes foliated, sometimes fibrous ... Presence of iron may give it a red or brownish hue. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent & of a rich oil-green color. Serpentine results from the alteration of other magnesian minerals, esp. chrysolite, amphibole, & pyroxene, and is frequently found in large masses ... --Webster's, 1914; from a note preserved in the author's papers

Serpentine was first published in by Oasis Books, London, in 1985. It received little distribution and minimal notice at the time, somewhat to the author's distress, and the publisher's regret. It has never reappeared complete, although selections have appeared in subsequent compilations.

A collection of experimental prose texts--although the author forbade such a definition from appearing anywhere in the first edition, presumably in case it frightened off potential readers--Christopher Middleton described it as being a series of texts "on the nature of evil".


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781848615861
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Publication date: 02/16/2018
Series: Shearsman Library , #2
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 120
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Christopher Middleton (1926-2015) was one of the finest British poets of the post-war period, although this fact tends not to be admitted by many commentators, perhaps because his seriousness and erudition, combined with playfulness and a preparedness to try new and unusual approaches, unnerves them. He spent several decades in Austin, where he was Professor of German at the University of Texas, travelled widely, was a justly lionised translator of German literature, and an accomplished essayist. His Collected Poems are available in 2 volumes from Carcanet Press.

Table of Contents

ammonite

wittenbergplatz

moon climbing

neutron

ingestion

lavender

the chicken eater

momnpopville

Commodus

fruit bringers

our troubled speaker

photo blue sky

if he would tell us

the green heron

the chant of insects

abraham lingered

notamale

limits

seafog

grape

a provisional postscript

publisher’s note

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