From Library Journal:
"Pinsky has several careers within the realm of literature: poet, translator, and public advocate of poetry. All of these influences can be felt in his new collection, which is the first assembly of his own lyric verse to appear after The Want Bone.
"At times, his poems reach for the extra-personal, the mythic or abstract, as in "The Knight's Prayer" or "To the Phoenix"; at others, they move through personal or confessional modes, as in "An Alphabet of My Dead" or "To Television."
"Pinsky seems most comfortable with the gnomic or elevated phrase, as in: "The shifting hero wanders alien places, / Through customs of cities and histories of races, / Recollects, travels and summons together all— / All manners of the dead and living, in the great Hall." Occasionally, his differing manners collide strangely, but Pinsky delivers, as ever, intelligent, pensive poetry of great beauty."
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