From Library Journal
Kinzie's fourth collection is a series of meditations on family, with special emphasis on a woman's experience of giving birth and her relationship with her new child. Kinzie shows remarkable technical skill in a variety of forms, including sturdy blank verse ("Autumn Eros"), disciplined free verse ("L'Estate"), pentameter couplets ("Eld"), and tight stanzaic forms with strict rhyme schemes ("Sparrows," "Sound Waves"). The superb poem on the birth of her child ("Angel Food") amalgamates William Carlos Williams's "variable foot" and terza rima . Kinzie's style tends toward baroque articulation--often quite grand and marvelous, at times dark, even opaque. The sense one has at the end, of having been shown a few too many baby pictures by an earnest, proud, worried parent, is accompanied by admiration for the sheer poetry of this virtuoso performance. Highly recommended.
- Frank J. Lepkowski, Oakland Univ., Rochester, Mich.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Frank J. Lepkowski, Oakland Univ., Rochester, Mich.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
