Suffused with light and air, the poems have the clarity of great
photography, the feel of wind in the hair, the hushed compassion
for everything and everyone seen and heard.There is a rich
exuberance underlying all impressions, but not exploited at the
expense of deep feelings.There is a subtle basic bass line
supporting the sparkling right hand figures of Lee's style--an
unerring ear matched to an intensity of vision, and both in the
service of heart, mind and soul.More and more, I'm impressed by
Lee's wish to communicate in artistic language without
compromise--by his steely discipline as he balances the richest of
language with spiritual insight, avoiding the cheap plays of irony,
frippery vulgarity that tarnishes so much of "People's Poetry."This
is subtly conveyed by his kind shading of metaphor with "like''
since similes are less dazzling and therefore more sympathetic to
the nerves of the common reader as he sublimely manipulates
emotions with all the artistry of the poet aligned with the
gravitas of the image.John B. Lee is "the" People's Poet with the
hidden agenda of a spiritual adviser, a magician of language whose
poems often conclude with an amazing transcendence of intellect
confronted by the inexpressible and surrendering to it in a
skyrocket of wild imagery and pure poetry.I admire the
unselfconscious pride with which Lee propagates his love of
literature--its power and its glory--around his town and around the
world--an evangelist of truth and beauty. To read Lee's work is to
believe in them for the first time all over again. God bless him.by
George Whipple
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