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The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003, by Alan Gould; University of Queensland Press, 2005, $22.95.
THE APPEARANCE of Alan Gould's The Past Completes Me affords us an opportunity to explore some of his recurring themes and images and, by so doing, to highlight the reasons why he is such an exciting and absorbing poet. As I have said before in this magazine, Gould is a major Australian poet, not simply because he is a superb maker of poems, and not simply because his poems compel us to return to them often, but because he handles major themes--time, space, history, work, awe, courage--with such assurance and apparent ease.
In encouraging readers ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Poetry of the complex circuits.(The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems...