These poems are the work of a poet who realizes he is slipping - slowly - into dementia. They are the poems of a man whose brain doesn't work as fast as it used to, and he knows it. The power of the poems lies not in dramatic imagery but in the way they bring the experiences and perceptions of the poet - not muddled but razor-sharp - to the reader. They are, as he puts it, "old guy poems," the fruits of a lifetime of reflection and extraordinarily...
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