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A miniature cathedral and other poems

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This book was frankly a disappointment. With Wangerin's beautiful prose, I expected beautiful poetry. What I got was often doggerel with cliched rhymes and nothing new to say. It is reminiscent of Madeleine L'Engles' poetry, both in rhyme and free verse, but shows considerably less skill (and L'Engle herself was no poetic genius). For all that, there are a few interesting ideas, an occassionally brilliant line; and (surprisingly considered his other verse) he was something of a master of the sonnet. The poems in this book are only occassionally the religious or mythopoeic on might expect from Wangerin, and certainly not strong enough to be a reason for purchase. If you are interested in the sonnet as an artform, get this book; if not, let it go.