A "Boston Globe" Best Poetry Book of 2011
The poems of Glyn Maxwell possess a slow, quiet fire. They
refrain from grand gestures, from loud proclamations of emotion.
Instead, Maxwell unveils these emotions gently, quietly,
intricately--like little postcards in a waxed envelope. Each of his
poems is Blake's "world in a grain of sand." Maxwell's works reveal
very little about their subjects; there are, rather, merely the
faintest, well-chosen hints of quotidian life: a man kills a wasp;
a man falls in and out of love; a man escapes from an unnamed
pursuer. But from these suggestive fragments, it is possible to
extrapolate an entire world.
The casual virtuosity that first brought Maxwell great renown is on
show throughout the poems collected in "One Thousand Nights and
Counting." Lyrical or narrative, comic or contemplative, these are
profound, resonant explorations of love and fatherhood, of triumph
and longing. They will not soon be forgotten.
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