"The View From Jackass Hill" is a book in which the poems both eulogize and celebrate. They weep and sing. They sing of and mourn for family, friends and poets: Keats, Wyler, Shinder, Carruth, and others. Geographically, the book is rooted in the east--New York, New Hampshire, Maine--and travels west, to Colorado. Thematically, it is a delineation of loss, both personal and national: the death of loved ones, the death in war. It is, in short, a lament for the erosion of the American Dream. Yet it is a book that insists on "Making Up with Milton." "Here is a poet with a real voice, brave and...
"The View From Jackass Hill" is a book in which the poems both eulogize and celebrate. They weep and sing. They sing of and mourn for family, friends ...
