Poetry. With elegiac elan, Saul Bennett grapples with the death of a child. Through a deft use of repetition and a lilt in the language that offsets these often somber meditations, he avoids sentimentality and creates powerfully wrought poems. "Bennett creates a unique idiom...with relentless phrases which pull you through the poems, which refuse to let you go. A Bennett poem is uniquely his. And yet it also shows the fingerprints of a tradition --...
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