Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Man, that IS important!


A new review just in from our friends over at Quill & Quire, this time on Alex Boyd's The Least Important Man:
"Boyd changes lenses more frequently as the book goes on. “Dead Bees Are Indomitable” traces a ghostly flight path, punctuated midway by a Paraguayan car bomb and ending in a shapeless fit of static. The poet can work magic in miniature: poems about chess pieces, toy soldiers, and house spiders each animate aspects of civic and personal life without lapsing into caricature. “Basil Rathbone Meets God,” “A Stuntman Destroys the Hate Window,” “Samuel Drowns, at Thirty” and others that hunker down and lavish their attention on one individual are among the book’s most beautiful and surprising."
By the end of the collection, I was able to count a number of these standouts. And man, that is important."
You can read the full review if you follow the link above.

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