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In a River of Wind

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The "reviewer" below obviously has ulterior motives for giving this book a bad review. Also, one would think a reviewer of poetry would punctuate correctly, edit their misspellings, and use correct grammar. Perhaps the reviewer below believes an unhampered "stream of conscious" ramble is "art" and/or poetry. I must disagree. Before you can understand and appreciate poetry, you should be able to get a "C" or better in Comp 101.
It's also obvious they didn't actually read Harrison's work. This is a fine first collection by a seasoned writer. Anyone who reads a poem like "At Blue Hole" and then goes on to describe it as "unmemorable" needs to have their emotions checked by a credentialed head shrink.
Harrison's work in this book is by no means earth-shattering, but it is a solid first effort that's worth any reader's attention--especially students of poetry. I, for one, eagerly await his second.

I reviewed another book from this publisher which I also found equally dull and lacking art. Both, in fact, I found in a bargain barrel of sorts, most likely thrown away by someone who found as equally painful to read as I. Harrison's work wants to be inventive, ingenious and artful, but in the end he doesn't really offer up much of a challenge to his work and simply falls into very unmemorable prose brokwn into lines.