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Narcissus Dreaming.
Dabney Stuart. Louisiana State Univ., $7.95 ISBN 0-8071-1592; cloth $14.95 -1591-6 Many of the poems in this collection depict a kind of dream state that attempts to lead readers into the poet's fantasy world. In "The Harpist's Dream," Stuart conjures a woman playing trees as if they were the strings of an instrument. In "Hidden Meanings," he borrows from fairy tales; Rumplestiltskin appears along with Hansel and Jack of the beanstalk. Yet the poet's language is too plain and his ideas too superficial to give these poems any sort of chimerical resonance or fluidity: "Both Hansel and Jack hated their mothers: / . . . Their …
