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On Tuesday Sept. 29th (my Birthday!) we’ll be launching the label Nonclassical in North America.
Naxos of America begins distribution of NonClassical Records
On September 29, Naxos begins distribution of Gabriel Prokofiev's genre-busting label NonClassical R
Biography John Matthias
John Matthias is an American poet. He was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1941
and attended Ohio State University and Stanford University. At Stanford he
studied under the poet and critic Yvor Winters, but did not conform to
Winters' stringent anti-modernist position. In fact, Matthias became deeply
interested in modernism, especially English modernism, which he came to
know well during many years of residence in England. His peers at Stanford
included two future poets laureate of the United States, Robert Hass and
Robert Pinsky, as well as the poets Ken Fields, James McMichael, and John
Peck.
Influences include John Berryman, Ezra Pound, and perhaps most
importantly, the Anglo-Welsh poet David Jones, on whose work Matthias has
edited two books.
Matthias' books include: Bucyrus, (1970); Turns (1975); Crossing (1979);
Northern Summer (1984); A Gathering of Ways (1991); Beltane at Aphelion
(1995); Swimming at
