<p>This sequence of poems, put together over twenty years, develops a portrait of love both discovered and lost, requited and unrequited, erotic and spiritual. Each poem stands apart and at the same time lets its particular light fall upon the struggles and the moments of evanescent beauty toward which this life - and the mystery of male and female - are continually bearing us.</p>

The Elizabeth Sequence

Literature & Fiction

Kistler, William

Poetry

Amagansett Press

This sequence of poems, put together over twenty years, develops a portrait of love both discovered and lost, requited and unrequited, erotic and spiritual. Each poem stands apart and at the same time lets its particular light fall upon the struggles and the moments of evanescent beauty toward which this life - and the mystery of male and female - are continually bearing us.

Amagansett Pr

Poems of the Known World come to us from the paradoxes and harsh juxtapositions of late 20th-century life - the unkempt homeless sleeping beside a smoothness of marble cut from mountains they will never see and used as the facings of buildings they will almost never enter; male and female reaching toward union while memories of the brutality of war pass between them; the recognition by a market futures trader that his life is as vulnerable and circumscribed as that of a frog he had dissected as a student years before.Kistler is sometimes likened to Wallace Stevens because of his careers in both poetry and business. His concerns, however, are both contemplative and activist. He has looked at the structures of late 20th-century society and understood their effects on our lives. His language and his imagery are at times harsh, at times lyrical; they open new shapes of understanding. These poems resonate with the experiences of an intense life. A fierce seeking is here joined with an expansive heart.

Poems of the Known World

Arcade Publishing

Notes Drawn from the River of Ecstasy is William Kistler's fourth and most adventurous volume of poetry. These poems engage the harsh economic and social realities of late 20th century life and simultaneously the most subtle threads of love. This work looks back to the ideal love and sharp-tongued social criticism of the French Troubadour poets of the 12th century and forward to the poetry of interstellar space which waits in the 21st century. Kistler's poetry comes to us from the river flow of the timeless and it reinvents itself on page after page as an imaginative examination of life in the commercial capital of the world. These are poems of vision and experience.

Notes Drawn from the River of Ecstasy

History & Criticism

Council Oak Books

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The Elizabeth Sequence

The Elizabeth Sequence

Poems of the Known World

Notes Drawn from the River of Ecstasy