D H Lawrence

New Poems D H Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence: New Poems Edited with an introduction by Margaret Elvy D. H. Lawrence's 1918 book of poetry is reprinted in a new edition, with illustrations and a note on Lawrence and suggestions for further reading. In the introduction to the American edition of New Poems, Lawrence wrote: Let me feel the mud and the heavens in my lotus. Let me feel the heavy, silting, sucking mud, the spinning of sky winds. Let me feel them both in purest contact, the nakedness of sucking weight, nakedly passing radiance. Give me nothing ?xed, set, static. Don't give me the in?nite or the eternal: nothing of in?nity, nothing of eternity. Give me the still, white seething, the incandescence and the coldness of the incarnate moment: the moment, the quick of all change and haste and opposition: the moment, the immediate present, the Now. The immediate moment is not a drop of water running downstream. It is the source and issue, the bubbling up of the stream. Here, in this instant moment, up bubbles the stream of time, out of the wells of futurity, flowing on to the oceans of the past. The source, the issue, the creative quick. There is poetry of this immediate present, instant poetry, as well as poetry of the in?nite past and the in?nite future. The seething poetry of the incarnate Now is supreme, beyond even the everlasting of the before and after. British Poets Series. Bibliography, illustrations and notes. 96pp. www.crmoon.com