Synopses & Reviews
From the huddling men in a Rembrandt print to an image in a bathroom mirror that might be Christ or a mere smudge, David Yezzi, with his precisely carved and subtly cutting language, questions and considers the surfaces of our perceptions and the life they conceal-that which suggests, asks, demands to be seen. In this deeply philosophical book, Yezzi deploys a mobile intelligence that reaches from the world of art to the landscape of the mind's cravings and demonstrates a capacious gift for using the formal techniques of poetry in unobtrusive and captivating ways, rendering verse that is both poetically rich and emotionally charged.
Review
"David Yezzi has a musician's ear for nuance and color, a novelist's nose for detail and the dramatic moment.
The Hidden Model is a rich, resonant collection of poems-its works precision-made-certain to delight at first, and likely to haunt ever after. A terrific book!"
--J. D. McClatchy
About the Author
David Yezzi is director of New York's 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center. His critical writings have appeared in the
New York Times,
New Yorker, and other major publications; and his poetry has appeared in the
New Republic,
Paris Review,
Yale Review,
New England Review, and other journals. This is his first book of poetry.