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 Reviewed by: The Rev 30th Dec 2002 
 


From Snow and Rock, from Chaos

Hayden Carruth
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Hayden Carruth has long been one of the finest poets America has to offer, and this slim volume offers a good number of reasons why. The fifty-eight pages of this collection (which can still be found for its extremely low cover price at Amazon thirty years later!) are far less intimidating to the Carruth novice than the eight hundred plus of Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991, and while the book doesn't include anything of the magnitude of “Ray” or The Bloomingdale Papers, there is more than enough brilliance here to whet the reader's appetite for more of Carruth's soft, often witty poetry. Moving between structure and free verse with a sure hand in both, there is something in this collection for just about everyone. If you haven't yet discovered Carruth, this is an excellent starting point.



See also
If You Call This Cry a Song by Hayden Carruth reviewed by The Rev
North Winter by Hayden Carruth reviewed by The Rev
The Bloomingdale Papers by Hayden Carruth reviewed by The Rev
The Sleeping Beauty by Hayden Carruth reviewed by The Rev