From Library Journal
"Language is a darkness pulled out of us" writes Plumly in a jarring poem titled "Infidelity," in which a child witnesses his mother being pushed out of a car by an angry (or jealous) spouse. And indeed it's the inner darkness that prompts the best work here, poems that face mortality and transmit the sense that life is the eerie, momentary shudder of a soul through a body that we may or may not be lucky enough to notice. Though now and then Plumly still resorts to familiar, shopworn imagery--wildflowers, birds, "blue air"--he more than compensates in the title poem (a string of 14 sonnets weaving echoes of the Holocaust with the clearing of a forest), "Pityriasis Rosea" (on a symptom of AIDS), and "Early and Late in the Month" (a surprisingly vivid meditation on the "industrial light/ of London").
- Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Above Barnesville
Against Starlings
Analogies Of The Leaf
Argument & Song
Birthday
Boy On The Step
Cedar Waxwing On Scarlet Firethorn
Cloud Building
Coming Into La Guardia Late At Night
Early And Late In The Month
The Foundry Garden
Fountain Park
Four Appaloosas
Hedgerows
Infidelity
The James Wright Annual Festival
Men Working On Wings
Pityriasis Rosea
The Six Shapes In Nature
Toward Umbria
Victory Heights
With Stephen In Maine
The Wyoming Poetry Circuit
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Against Starlings
Analogies Of The Leaf
Argument & Song
Birthday
Boy On The Step
Cedar Waxwing On Scarlet Firethorn
Cloud Building
Coming Into La Guardia Late At Night
Early And Late In The Month
The Foundry Garden
Fountain Park
Four Appaloosas
Hedgerows
Infidelity
The James Wright Annual Festival
Men Working On Wings
Pityriasis Rosea
The Six Shapes In Nature
Toward Umbria
Victory Heights
With Stephen In Maine
The Wyoming Poetry Circuit
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
