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FIGUREHEAD By John Hollander Knopf $22, 96pp.
John Hollander does not move me. His poems are not verses that romance-filled 16-year-olds also reading The Bell Jar will dog-ear and gloss with pink pens. No "how-do-I-love-thees" cling to Hollander's pages like damp, juvenile kisses. Hollander's newest book of...
But before the English concentrators in the audience begin to rant over these naive poetic presumptions, I will remind myself just in time that great poetry extends beyond merely the spontaneous overflowing of powerful feelings and into a realm where form nearly always matters. "There are many people who appreciate...
And, OK, so Hollander is in his 60s. So he's already published 17 books of poetry. So he's a "modern master." So he's definitely not writing for lovesick adolescents. I guess I'm willing to accept that the grandiosity of his technique has a purpose beyond self...
Tim Hollander, a close friend, said Reynolds, "rarely spoke unkindly of others, and I never heard an unkind word spoken of him, which is a rarity nowadays--a gentlemen in the truest sense of the word."