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3.0 out of 5 stars
Over-intellectual, pedantic,
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This review is from: A Wandering Island (Paperback)
Karl Kirchwey's poems have very little to do with the real world, with no remarkable immediacy whatsoever. These are poems of a brain without a body, arcane, sifting through history, tenuous. Reading these poems, one is not awed, or moved by the awesome immediacy of language, or even inspired. It is work, like panning for gold, to find bits of language which aren't weighted down with demonstrations of irrelevant pedegogical flotsam. Why do poets insist on being *difficult* in order to have a worthy 'career' in academia? Here's another example of a poseur, striving to be well known, producing over-intellectual linguistic balderdash instead of honest, penetrating, insightful, direct vision. I suppose they loved him at Yale. |
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A Wandering Island (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets) by Karl Kirchwey (Hardcover - Apr. 1990)
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