There is a vision of power at the center of James Franco's first
chapbook of poems, Strongest of the Litter. Power here is both
generative and frightening, self-consuming and bracing. It is the
artist's power of self-making. These poems, thoroughly beautiful
and spare, have the texture of contending angles. Authenticity can
be achieved only through different voices: in an investigation of
the range and strength of American art, in homage to Williams
Carlos Williams, in awe at the cost to American actors of their art
(notably Taylor, Clift, De Niro and Brando), in the celebration and
limitation of Kowalski love -- "I'm a raging Kowalski whose /
Temper can be measured by // How little I can give. / How abusive
my reticence." Pervasive in these eloquent poems is the power of
memory, the collective memory of Hollywood and specific memories of
the poet's own past.
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