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The Ghost Soldiers.(Brief article)(Book review)
These character-driven poems are variations on a theme: the intrusion of the unexpected on the ordinary and the ordinary on the unexpected. Some take the form of dialogues, sprinkled with misunderstandings; others are first-person musings in which the natural world seems to conspire against the human subject. The aggregation of these vignettes--by turns whimsical, disquieting, and ecstatic--achieves a Yoknapatawpha-like effect of hermetic wholeness. Meanwhile, the banal and the metaphysical are ...
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