"Gilfillan is a storyteller whose appeal is more mystical than realistic."--ALA Booklist Gilfillan's -observations, quotations, etymologies, and classical forms are constructed by equal parts scholar and aesthete. He is a master of Low Distance. Gilfillan watches and then watches again. His writing is workman-like in the sense of what words are like, and luminous in its experimental directions. "If John Clare had toured the United...
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