The White StonesJ. H. Prynne J. H. Prynne is Britains 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 Prynnes career and poetics, and it constitutes an ideal introduction to the achievement and vision of a legendary but in America still little known