THE THING KING
the ninth volume of poetry by
Charles Edward Eaton
" Increasingly one of our finest poets ."
- Robert Boyers
Editor of
Salmagundi
and
Bennington Review
"Charles Edward Eaton's poetry reminds us
that the purpose of art is beauty, and that beauty
is one of the antique and perennial pleasures of
our species . That pleasure, as Keats believed,
weds us to the world and makes us love it; in
Eaton's poetry we are provided with an in–
telligent, sophisticated, passionate and naked
sensorium, and given the world.
Besides being a master of the significant
image, Eaton is a virtuoso of mood and emo–
tional nuance . Feelings normally so truant and
ephemeral as to be uncapturable in poetry he has
richly set down and formed into an avenue of
unfamiliar truth.
Eaton's tone, meter and technique are quite
unlike anyone else's; after'the sameness of much
contemporary poetry he is a breath of fresh air.
He shows that it is not necessary to be in–
articulate to be American, nor vitiated to be
civilized. " $9.95
- Frederick Turner
Editor of
The Kenyon Relliew
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