Almost Thence Sum
Herrick, Jeffrey / Mcgann, Jerome
Most poets, even the most linguistically eclectic, mine the riches of relatively local deposits of language and commune directly with relatively restricted communities. Herrick began writing beyond the boundaries of Europe and the Western world when he left the United States in 1975 to teach at universities in Libya and Palestine and, beginning in 1981, in Japan, where he has since lived. From the early 1990s he has been writing verse under th...