This collection of Michael Newell's Harry poems is something special and long overdue. It is a life-long project that, poem by poem, builds up a complex and distinct persona who endures life's trials and undergoes all sorts of moods. Newell expresses Harry's unique and trenchant sensibility in verses of many forms, in the precise and condensed diction of poetry. Taken together, they achieve the scope of a novel. Harry's sadness is more than cheerless,...
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