Customer Reviews

Navigating the Distances: Poems New and Selected

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Bruce Bennett was my professor at Wells College. He was great then as he is now. If you like poetry with a twist, you'll love Bruce's unique style.

If you are interested in reading or crafting villanelles, sonnets, epigrams and other fixed forms of metered, rhyming verse, you've come to the right place. The villanelles are especially well done, found in a separate booklet called It's Hard to Get the Angle Right. Great combination of wit, impassioned poetics, irony, cogent reasoning, mastery of fixed form and sheer entertainment value. Not all poems are of equal value, thus the 4-star rating. Perhaps in future editions or a Collected Poems volume, many of the lesser, triter verse can be forgettably omitted; but much that remains is more than collectible, as W.H.Auden said, the one-quarter portion of his work for which he is truly grateful.