“This captivating collection gets rolling with: ‘… the cold glitter / of the winter stars / like milestones along the road …’ I was struck by poems made of lines that are poems all on their own—even as they unstack into melodic steps from top to bottom . . . Some are as spare as Chinese widsom. In Herman’s poems you know you are certainly ‘somewhere’ but maybe it’s somewhere only in atavistic memory, the realm of dreams. He writes with what Lavinia Greenlaw called ‘unsettled language,’ which brings less obvious aspects of imagination or observation to the fore . . . teasing, holding attention by where they might be heading. A doubtful adventure? A seductive noire? An obscene history lesson? And of course, mortality raises its knowing head more than once. . . . The poems are accompanied throughout by the finely crafted and imaginative collages of Norman O. Mustill, a sadly neglected master of visual socio-political invective. His work was best known in the late 1960s when he collaborated with Herman on a number of fabled underground publications. It’s remarkable how specifically the collages complement the poems although they were created independently and many years apart.” — Jay Jones
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And this came from Charles Plymell:
