Listening to the candle

Listening to the candle

a poem on impulse

by Peter Dale Scott

Part of A New Directions paperbook ;

1992
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Listen To The Candle is a booklength reflection on the poet's life. Listening followings Jakarta as the seconds step in a projected trilogy: Self-knowledge is more at issue than self-alienation; art perhaps overshadows politics; Rilke is more the poem's guide than pound. -- Back cover.

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