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Peter Kane Dufault’s poetry has long been admired on both sides of the Atlantic. Poem after poem captures a miniature world or wrestles with big questions in ways that are accessible yet resonant and memorable. Dufault’s vision is carried by a music rooted in sources as diverse as Hopkins, Whitman, Wordsworth and Dickinson, but his voice is distinctly his own. We are in the company of a master: there are ‘no frills, just infinity’.
“Wonderful stuff” – Ted Hughes
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Peter Kane Dufault’s poetry has long been admired on both sides of the Atlantic. Poem after poem captures a miniature world or wrestles with big questions in ways that are accessible yet resonant and memorable. Dufault’s vision is carried by a music rooted in sources as diverse as Hopkins, Whitman, Wordsworth and Dickinson, but his voice is distinctly his own. We are in the company of a master: there are ‘no frills, just infinity’.
“Wonderful stuff” – Ted Hughes
Logos
In the omniloquent harangue
of wind on a high coast
nothing else is audible.
Osprey and herring gull
on the great Apostrophe hang
mute in one place, almost
not beating their wings. Seas
explode soundlessly among
dumb caverns, and sheep,
herded by fog up the steep
headlands, move with no noise
either of hoof or tongue.
Over these, over huge sherds –
bones of a continent,
jumbled beneath the cliff –
the wind thunders, as if
now were the Beginning, it the Word,
and the Deep just now rent.
Published: 2000
ISBN: 978-0953094752
Pages: 152
“I’ve been enjoying Dufault’s poems since the late fifties… Every poem has a surprise. So fresh and new and itself… wonderful stuff. Snatches those uncatchable moments – like snatching a butterfly out of the air – then letting it go undamaged. So nimble and delicate.”
Ted Hughes
“His work throughout is distinguished not only by largeness of theme but also by a precision and wit that are uniquely his own.”
Amy Clampitt
“He is a nature poet for grownups. We need him.”
P.J. Kavanagh
“Peter Kane Dufault has been at it for many years, writing poems full of vigor, knowledge and felicity.”
Richard Wilbur
Peter Kane Dufault (1923 – 2013) grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., and studied at Harvard. He graduated in 1947 and the first of his books of verse was published in 1954. He was variously employed as tree-surgeon, journalist, teacher, house-painter, pollster and, in 1968, he was a candidate for US Congress, running on the Liberal Party’s anti-Vietnam war platform; he was known locally as a fiddler, banjo-player and dance-caller. Poems have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker and London Magazine, and anthologies, including the 1996 Norton Anthology. Peter was well known for his live performances and was twice Visiting Poet at the Cheltenham Festival. A profile of Peter by Brad Leithauser can be read on the The New Yorker here.
