is both learned and edgily unlearned. He cultivates the poetic persona of the chuchum, the wise guy, the kidder, the shape-shifter, "Loki the schemer," Hermes the divine messenger. There is about his voice always something of the high school troublemaker, but one who has taken the library seriously. "I have a small-town mind," he remarks in one new poem. "Like the Greeks and Trojans./Shame. Pride. Importance of looking bad or good."from Karl Kirchwey: Sifting through detail for myth and archetype
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