Publisher's Synopsis
"Accumulus" is a collection of Ethan Paquin's first two books of poems, "The Makeshift" and "Dead July". The former was released in the UK in 2002, to widespread critical notice (it has already been reviewed or mentioned three times in "The TLS" alone, as well as in "PN Review" and elsewhere), and "Dead July" has not before been published. Paquin's work draws on various poetic traditions and is influenced by voices both classic and contemporary. "Accumulus" pairs the language play of Paquin's first book with the sparse, meditative lyricism of his second to create a texture unlike that of the work of many other younger American poets writing today.
