The Encolpia is a new book of poetry that hews to the maggot, or eccentric idea, of
                a meditation importuned. Classical in craft and fierce in treatment, the book is a
                sonnet sequence presented as a series of different ruminations on such pivotal virtues
                as responsibility, degree, spiritual vagrancy, delight, sorrow, election and silence, all
                encased in their own spectacular and supplicating reliquaries. 

                While it is unlikely that individual poems extracted from a sonnet sequence will
                justly reveal their power or live perfectly on their own without the narrative pace
                and vital interconnections that drive them, samples are provided in the links at left
                to give you a small idea of the tenor, the music and the scope. The full argument
                is wanting here and I hasten to insist that you will find much, much more when
                the complete sequence, with its vagaries and intricate images, is in hand.
 
                                        

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                         The Encolpia is printed in the spirit of  © Habley Mouse, a Private Press, 2011.  All rights reserved. 
                                                                           (Poetry by William Frank)       

               Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced,
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               the prior written permission of the author.