Poetry. Collecting Theodore Enslin's major work from 1993 to 2003, NINE is a companion volume to Enslin's THEN, AND NOW: SELECTED POEMS 1943-1993, published by the National Poetry Foundation in 1999. Since the late 1980s, Enslin has devoted his energies primarily to the composition of theme-and-variations sequences, exploring the musical permutations of a limited cluster of words, and NINE collects these sequences. In a review of Enslin's IN TANDEM, Tony Frazer writes, "Enslin's work has taken on a different kind of organization in recent years, in which repetition is used musically." The ultimate effect, says Frazer, is "incantatory," "captivating," "marvelous."
Author City: MILBRIDGE, ME USA
Born in 1925 in Chester, Pennsylvania, Theodore Enslin lived most of his life in a small farmhouse near the coast of Maine. He passed away in 2011.