The Sleeping Gypsy is an important collection of poems by an
American writer who was but twenty-nine when awarded the coveted
Prix de Rome in 1958. When George Garrett's first collected verse,
The Reverend Ghost and Other Poems, appeared in Scribner's Poets of
Today: IV, critics hailed the emergence of an authentic new talent
of great promise. Babette Deutsch, writing in the New York Herald
Tribune, said, "His poems are short, highly charged, and also, as
he intended, clear. They move rapidly, without waste, exhibiting a
lively skill and vigor in action.... His sensitive perceptivity
makes his thoughtful insights more memorable." Louise Bogan,
writing in the New Yorker, said, "It is good to come upon in
Garrett's work] an ordered brilliance and effects, long neglected,
that link us to the ancient tradition of English 'song.'"
Readers will find in The Sleeping Gypsy all of the qualities
that distinguished Garrett's earlier collection of verse--the
pointed, incisive writing, the abhorrence of "pretty" poetic words,
the harsh impact of language that is, at the same time, strangely
musical. Many will feel that, in this later work, these qualities
have been enhanced and that Garrett's advancing maturity indicates
strongly that his early promise will be richly fulfilled.
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