"C. S. Leaf's Lost In Hindsight is a lyrical dance to voice both necessary and new, old and resounding. Wondering. Wandering. Powerfully buoyant and brooding. His poetry is rich with incantation."
-GALE P. JACKSON, POET, WRITER & CULTURAL HISTORIAN
The collection includes Anamorphic poems (as palindromes/ and other word play, gnomology, but not esoteric, trope stanzas) Epcidium & Epithalamioms (poems on death loss life and love). It is an collection containing Leaf Earliest Poems. A collection written between the ages of 16 and 22 years old. Leaf's Ideolect Blossoms in Verse... a Fresh, Distinct, Cadence. When the collection was still in its infancy, Michael Hamburger compared Leaf and his works to Wallace Stevens, for his excellent use of sound and style.
"C. S. Leaf's LOST IN HINDSIGHT is a lyrical dance to voice both necessary and new, old and resounding. Wondering. Wandering. Powerfully buoyant and brooding. His poetry is rich with incantation." -- Gale P. Jackson, Poet, writer, and Cultural Historian, current poet in residence for New York City's Public Schools. Selected Publications; Suite for Mozambique, MeDea, Bridge Suite: Narrative Poems,, and We Stand Our Ground(a collaboration with Kimiko Hahn and Susan Sherman) “ADMIRED GREATLY” -- Dennis Flynn. Writer, Historian, and Professor Bentley College, Awarded Scholar of the Year-1995, John Donne Society President - 2000, Currant Executive Committee (Ex Officio). Selected Publications : John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility, The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne: vol. 7, Oxford edition of The Letters of John Donne. "WELL DONE!" -Ernesto Santiago, Poet, "VERY GOOD !” - Beverly Kleikamp, Poet & Editor Editor of NORTHERN STAR MAGAZINE, and NORTH STAR BOOKS. Author “OF HIGHER POWERS” "EXCELLENT. EXCELLENT WRITE AND READ." -
Anita Blanchard University of North Carolina at Charlotte "An excellent write of an antediluvian prophecy, spiritually philosophical, visionary and at the same time an introspective view, very descriptive from start to finish. Great!" - Deborah Simpson - Mondial Amour Entertainment Magazine, Poet of the Month - August, 2007 Edition “LOST IN HINDSIGHT Is a wonderful collection of poems that I found truly enjoyable... joyful... dark, full of emotion... HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL .” - Wolf, Poet
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