Poetry
72 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-20-3
Paper: $12.50
ISBN: 0-910055-19-X
Cloth: $23.00 |
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As they provide us with various versions of a history of their place, these poems resound with the rumble of boxcars, the slap of the river currents against the steel hulls of barges, the clatter of cicadas above the whisper of the bluestem grass, the quiet voices of grandfather, father and son across the generations, and their dialogues with grandmother, mother, and daughter.
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| "Reiter is a skilled technician as well as a teacher, the kind of poet a reader can learn from because he knows what will work in a poem and what won't, and because he knows things—ore—that the 'I' poet doesn't. His power derives from quiet certitude and control, and if there's a richer, deeper collection than Crossovers in 1995, I don't know its name." |
