Review
"...a master of meter and rhyme...a never ending parade of simply astonishing metaphors and turns of phrase..." -- T.L. Ponick (Edge City Review #7, 1995
"...a rare talent...able to apply his classical learning...to universal emotions and contemporary dilemmas." -- Samuel Maio (Mockingbird Winter 1995)
"...a rare talent...able to apply his classical learning...to universal emotions and contemporary dilemmas." -- Samuel Maio (Mockingbird Winter 1995)
From the Publisher
Severe, Anthony Lombardy's first collection, is being published by WordTech Editions in a revised edition with a selection of poems from the first edition and a lengthy introductory essay on the function of poetry. Lombardy is especially interested in what is adaptive about poetry and poetic culture. He also engages in an exploration of rhythm and poetic form. Lombardy includes a discussion of the three critical perspectives that come to us from the ancient world: genre criticism, style criticism, and qualitative criticism. He argues that these branches of criticism are not rival and mutually incompatible, but are complementary approaches to poetry, and the staples of a rhetorical education.
