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...South American oligarchies are inescapable, and Donoso does nothing to discourage them. But he also ducks any implied accusations of realism. After setting and populating his scene in the first chapter, the author takes pains to point out that his creations are impalpable figures of fancy. He asks his readers to "accept what I write as an artifice. By intruding myself from time to time on the story I simply wish to remind the reader of his distance from the material of this novel, which I would like to claim as something entirely my own, for exhibit or display, never...
...high statue of the Buddha (flotsam from the hurricane) that he has stashed in his yard; a nuns' shrine to St. Francis that he tends on his island; an occult Mexican medal that dangles from his neck. Spencer's handling of these images leaves the reader conscious at every moment of a high skill and intelligence - indeed, perhaps too conscious. Individual scenes are admirable, as when Arnie's hapless rival Lex, visiting the sanctum of Arnie's island, seeks an epiphany in a swarm of butterflies ("a world of translucent amber, the dazzle of deep dimension...
...time, Spencer's novel slips out from under the reader as well, but until it does, the ride is beguiling...
...visionary deepens Stevens' poetry. At times it can be understood logically, while at other times, it can be experienced as ecstasy Academics often fail to come up with standards by which to judge such poetry How can one be objective about an experience which involves both poem and reader...
...monuments to Nothing than admit the existence of Something, Libby does not ask if the mystical absorption in death is not perhaps a retreat. This is the only serious flaw in a critical argument that fully acknowledges an off-ignored characteristic of poetry. The poem is only half--the reader is the rest...