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...Axinn rarely manages to find a theme springing directly from the images in his poetry. Rather than asking any questions that might interest the reader, or dealing other than superficially with the images of modern life that now confront all poets. Axinn tries to dodge them by watching birds. He creates a world of his own, fitting images awkwardly into his one-with-nature ideas...
...times, when the confusion of multiple objects does not interfere with his scenes, Axinn writes palatable, single-theme poetry using tidy lines like "I shall fold you into myself." His voice is clear, and he does not create any discomfort for the reader. He is only trying to convey enjoyment...
NONFICTION: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Anne Olivier Bell Qoing to the Dance, Arlene Croce Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash Midnights, Alec Wilkinson -The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson -U.S.S.R.: The Corrupt Society, Konstantin Simis
...bangs turn banal in the end? Sometimes he presses too hard. The ball of fire that appeared over Siberia in 1908 never quite finds its symbolic connection to his account of the Russian Revolution. A narrative on the ill-used Anabaptists begins so remotely that a reader gets lost in the preliminary spirals. At Friedrich's high level of risk, a measure of failure is unavoidable. But what would we do without this book...
Friedrich, like Wiesel, has finally understood very little. To understand very much would be an insult. But he has borne witness to a horrific, obscene lot, and the reader must feel something of the grati tude that the woman in the cold felt to ward Akhmatova...