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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.
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 h...
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Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, is an award-winning poet, writer, and researcher. His previous books include Coming to Jakarta, Listening to the Candle, Minding the Darkness, and C
Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, is an award-winning poet, writer, and researcher. His previous books include Coming to Jakarta, Listening to the Candle, Minding the Darkness, and C
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