Medieval Author:Steven Farmer Poetry. "MEDIEVAL, the latest of Steven Farmer's five books, is his finest. The title poem is the curiously beautiful engine under the hood. Every note is tender and deviant, each fragment riveted to the next, in a score of participant fear--mysteriously pastoral in its leaking mix of diction-landscape. This extraordinary poet presents unique di... more »ssections of the social with a lift (and laugh) to the gallows, addresses his understanders with words for loss and eyes our strobbing hearts"--Melanie Neilson. "The balance and turns in these poems makes me dizzy with envy'--Ron Silliman. Steven Farmer has been writing in a California circuit for at least seventeen years, and his poems have appeared in many collections including Avec, Crayon, Lyric, Object, Mirage #41 and Period(ical)#4. "MEDIEVAL, the latest of Steven Farmer's five books, is his finest."--Melanie Neilson. "The balance and turns in these poems makes me dizzy with envy'--Ron Stillman.« less