Perry’s Beauty/Beauty is a book of reflection and symmetry
he offers a very personal response to the public and private experiences of poetry
lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed it at each stage
like the worlds they touch on
Marked by meticulous diction and vibrant imagery
A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron Keston Sutherland Perry’s Beauty/Beauty is a bookSerious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures are here. There's also an almost but not quite dialogue between the poems and the laconic (and sometimes furious) musings of the passages which punctuate them. There are a series of fairytale poems, and others which give unfettered voice to Marcie, a character who has appeared in Mark