Review by Choice Review
"How shall a generation know its story/ If it will know no other?" The opening lines of the collection make us cringe that Bowers may be leading us into mawkish labyrinths of old-fashioned moralizing or sociology under the pretense of poetry. Not so. Instead, the flexuous lines combine with historical references and delicate turns in endings, persuasively expanding their subjects. A poem beginning with hang gliders waiting together in a row for the wind ends, convincingly, with a comment on the stars. Which is to say at once that this is the work of an intensely visual poet, one who, furthermore, can make the larger connections we so often miss. The later poems, especially, tend to lack the grand sense of participation in things beyond our limited selves, yet easily more than the first half of the pages offer heady experiences. Worth consideration by academic and public libraries maintaining contemporary poetry collections. P. Wild University of Arizona
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Review by Choice Review
