J. H. Prynne is Britain's leading late-modernist poet. His work, as it
has emerged since the 1960s, when he was close to Charles Olson and
Edward Dorn, is marked by a remarkable combination of lyricism and
abstraction, at once austere and playful. The White Stones is a book
that is central to Prynne's career and poetics, and it constitutes an
ideal introduction to the achievement and vision of a legendary but in
America still little-known contemporary master.