Synopses & Reviews
Review
"For more than 20 years, Larry Rubin has elaborated a unique poetic instrument. Among the first of his generation to explore private pain and the juncture of dream and reality in an undisguisedly personal manner, he has resolutely carried out his probe without sacrificing the technical or rhetorical discoveries of his immediate predecessors. Nowhere is his success more evident than in this, his third (and best) collection. Text after text invites favorable comparison with early Lowell, Roethke, or late Plath, yet none echoes their distinctive voices or characteristic strategies. Such is Rubin's originality: that of a poet who has made his influences so completely his own that he can transform them into what they are not, what they could never be." Reviewed by Robert Jackson, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)