Mosaic Orpheus

Working Always To Connect The Polemical To The Personal, Peter Dale Scott's Political Poems - From The Tear Gas Of Berkeley Protests In The 1960s To The Problems Of Thai Forest Monks In An Era Of Drug-trafficking And Deforestation - Are A Process Of Self-questioning. Self-questioning Also Marks His Meditation Poems, Including A Sequence On The Death Of His First Wife. In Opposition To Contemporary Poems Of Studied Meaninglessness, Scott Increasingly Recognizes A Compulsion In Himself To Radically Reaffirm Traditional Rejections Of The External World And Turn To The Refuges Of Poets Before Him, The Enduring Commonplaces That Are More Than Cliches.