Swimming Chenango Lake by Charles Tomlinson, ed. by David Morley Mircea Dinescu He spent his writing life

He spent his writing life not so much swimming against the tide as ignoring the stream’s existence… He was one of those by whom the language lives

exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the notion that men invent while women reflect

          there they sit like statues of sitting dogs

these charged and challenging poems never shy from confrontation

was published in China in 2011

Swimming Chenango Lake by Charles Tomlinson, ed. by David Morley Mircea Dinescu He spent his writing lifeWilliam Carlos Williams valued Charles Tomlinsons poetry: He has divided his line according to a new measure learned, perhaps, for a new world. It gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life. Of all the poets of his generation, Charles Tomlinson was most alert to English and translated poetry from other worlds. The Mexican poet Octavio Paz admired how he saw the world as event He is fascinated with his