THE WINDOW

by Vern Rutsala ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

ere it not for a cumulative air of fairly unrelieved gloom, this would be rvelously attractive volume of poetry. The images crackle with life and point, the lines are spare, precise, flexible, and the poems say what they mean with a splendid economy. But the subject is nearly always a dry, modern world, where people ove, dusty and lifeless, among vividly alive and slightly menacing artifacts. Rarely have domestic articles (""Nightlocks.../their single fists tight in the wood"" etc.) and interiors, and the lives caught among them, been so brilliantly described with such imagination as to almost take the sting out of the despair that envelopes them. Taken singly, these poems are exhilarating in their sheer virtuosity, their mordant wit, imagery and evocation of a modern emptiness; seen together, for all their brilliance, they are limited in range and mood. Nevertheless, a volume to be read.

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Publisher: Wesleyan Univ. Press

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION