The Color Wheel (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Timothy Steele
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Short fiction, Poetry
- Subjects: Memory, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Beauty, Creative process, Space and time, Time, Colors, Vision
If there is a place where time stands still, where raindrops hang motionless in midair—could only a poem with meter and rhyme can evoke the dimensions of that place? Timothy Steele would answer yes.
The Color Wheel is about time: time measured by meter and rhyme, time moving within and through each poetic environment, despite the fact that these places are not temporal. The collection unfolds aware of the future, alert to the present, enduring the past. Steele is courageous in his plausible, old-fashioned, and cleansing formality. This collection will age well.
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