To "swither" means to suffer indecision or doubt, but there is no
faltering in these poems; any uncertainty is not in the lines or
the sounds or the images, but only in the themes of flux and change
and transformation that thread their way through this powerful
third collection. Robin Robertson has written a book of remarkable
cohesion and range that calls on his knowledge of folklore and myth
to fuse the old ways with the new. From raw, exposed poems about
the end of childhood to erotically charged lyrics about the end of
desire, from a brilliant retelling of the metamorphosis and death
of Actaeon to the final freeing of the waters in "Holding Proteus,"
these are close examinations of nature--of the bright epiphanies of
passion and loss.
At times sombre, at times exultant, Robertson's poems are always
firmly rooted in the world we see, the life we experience:
original, precise, and startlingly clear.
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