“Shadow words / that beat like hammers.”
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The British poet and critic David Erdos regards them as “free sonnets of experience that even Blake himself would favour. They are tears for the tongue; to be savored once tasted, and like a drop for the eye, ear, or mind, they restore perception to its rightful place. They are dark diamonds.” They have also drawn praise from Deirdre Bair (“poems to savor”), William Osborne (“profound, honest, and beautiful”), Jay Jeff Jones “spare and simple as Chinese wisdom”), Paul Buhle (“a message from the avant-garde past—never really past in our crumbling world—but as vivid as ever”), and Supervert (“unimpeachable, thoughtful, imagistic ironic, clear as water; they make you feel contemplative when you read them”).
