5.0 out of 5 stars
March Book!, July 12 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: March Book (Paperback)
The March Book is incredible and unforseen, as any great book must be. Not since "Lord Weary's Castle" has a poet been heralded in such a fashion by the work itself. Just as Lord Weary's Castle astounded not by innovation but by consummate skill and breadth, here we see Jesse Ball triumph in the sheer strength of his imaginative powers, in the sheer clarity of his delivering thought. The poems here function fundamentally on the level of thought, winding in and out of various conceptions, various intents. What elevates this book most of all however is its philosophy of careful hope; hope set against weariness, betrayal, suffering. This may not be a new argument, but no one else is couching it as Ball is, in a theater of such implacable momentum.
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