Corridor

Jonathan Aaron

My first thought about Corridor, Jonathan Aaron's second book, was “it's not as good as Second Sight (Jonathan Aaron's first book).” I kept reading, and while it's still fine stuff, nothing ever convinced me to give up that first impression.

Second Sight was a book that was full of good poems and great promise. Corridor is a book that is full of good poems, but the language here reflects an artist more set in his ways, for lack of a better way if putting it; there's less of the striking off into dangerous territory, less to make the reader work, less that will stop the reader and make him go back over the last few lines.

Don't get me wrong, this is still good stuff. But if you can, go back a few years and pick up Aaron's first book, Second Sight, instead. Read this one afterwards.