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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Precise beauty, amazing language,
By "akjdfls" (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vanitas Motel (Paperback)
The poems in Jon Loomis's Vanitas Motel are stark appraisals of loss, joy, mortality, and passion etched in simple, beautiful language. Touching, humorous, breathtaking.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An Insightful, Moving Collection,
By A Customer
This review is from: Vanitas Motel (Paperback)
According to David Young, editor of the Field Poetry Series (Oberlin College Press), the poems in Vanitas Motel are "clean and clear-eyed, remarkably distilled, often ferociously understated or matter-of-fact about pain or loss. They dart quickly, shading through tenderness and hilarity, aching with wit and exhilerating insights." The Virginia Quarterly Review said: "Few pleasures are more exhilerating than discovering a poet whose work passes Emily Dickinson's test for authentic writing: it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. This is the cas with Jon Loomis's 'Vanitas Motel.'" They're both right--the poems in "Vanitas Motel" are accessible and intelligent, serious and seriously funny all in one breath. With this shimmering debut, Loomis has established himself as one of America's finest younger poets.
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Vanitas Motel by Jon Loomis (Paperback - January 1, 1998)
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