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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fine book of new poetry,
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This review is from: Space Walk (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) (Hardcover)
Tom Sleigh is one of the best poets today. This is a book of great emotional power, one that examines, in an understated way, the primal experiences of being part of an aggressive, weightless nation, as well as the releases into the weightlessness of smaller scaled losses. He is a poet who balances the claims of other people, intellectual and emotional responsibility, against the delights of art. There are poems here that ride with seeming effortlessness upon cunning Metaphysical turns--a smiling quality. And he is the master of the extended sequence poems, in poems like "Ice Trucker Pilgrimage: A Libretto." He has discovered something new and inherently theatrical in the form of the sequence in his work. I would read this together with "The Far Side of the Earth," and seek out "Bula Matari/Smasher of Rocks," another "theater piece" sequence of his that appeared in a short-lived journal of longer poems called "At Length" and also as a chapbook.
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Space Walk (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) by Tom Sleigh (Hardcover - March 23, 2007)
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