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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Layer upon Layer,
By Libby Larsen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Engrafted Word: Poems (Paperback)
Kirchwey does an amazing job of synthesizing ideas from a number of spheres- such as obstetrics, physics, superstition, mythology, biology, religion, chemistry, Roman history and poetry. Kirchwey accomplishes said task by engrafting technical words upon each other, words that outwardly have little in common. Moreover, Kirchwey's great use of setting enables me to feel the location of each poem. I need not piece stilted descriptions together in a linguistic, logical manner, but rather, I subconsciously gain a poignant and fluid perception of my surroundings. And again, I think Kirchwey achieves this through diction specific to the time and region. He magically engrafts the past with the present, my familiarities with his familiarities, and our modern-day collective representations with those of peoples' long ago. Bravo.
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The Engrafted Word: Poems by Karl Kirchwey (Paperback - April 15, 1998)
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