It's possible that I'll come back to this one with five stars later; I've had to speed-read it for a class, which does no book much justice and this one even less. I've loved it so far, loved its melancholy; its self-conscious meta-religious search for something to cling to in the face of aging and ...
I very much enjoyed these poems, also because they were all of six lines, but mostly because Charles Wright wrote them. I don’t think this collection as a whole was as stunning as some of his other books, but it was still excellent. Very gracefully written. I dogeared many pages - things I loved and...
nice anthology of excepts, short stories, poems, etc about Italy. I was introduced or reacquainted with authors I'd like to get to know better.
I don't love every thing in here, but there are some pieces so exquisite and right-on it just makes me fall out of my chair. I would say mostly they're from the section of poems from 'China Trace.'
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