at his own style of lyric beauty, his means are slant. "A Test of Poetry" is a gorgeous catechism of questions, but no answers, posed by a translator to the author of a poem we get only in fragments:What do you mean by rashes of ash? Is industry
systematic work, assiduous activity, or ownership
of factories? Is ripple agitate lightly? Are
we tossed in tune when we write poems? And
what or who emboss with gloss insignias of air?
This riveting poem, more than five pages long, does everything a lyric aims to do--it creates linguistic excitement, mystery and emotion--without resorting to tiresome epiphanies.
from The New York Times: Poet and Anti-Poet
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