Greg Glazner's lyrical and meditative poems address the burdens, demands, and joys of life at the end of the twentieth century. Their subjects range from a self-portrait distorted by nightfall to a consideration of the place of consciousness in a universe created out of an explosion. These elegant, well-crafted poems depict the spiritual desolation of American life and act as beacons of hope in the quest for sincerity and depth.
Greg Glazner's lyrical and meditative poems address the burdens, demands, and joys of life at the end of the twentieth century. Their subjects range from a self-portrait distorted by nightfall to a consideration of the place of consciousness in a universe created out of an explosion. These elegant, well-crafted poems depict the spiritual desolation of American life and act as beacons of hope in the quest for sincerity and depth.
"One of the most important and urgent new poets in the United States." -- Quarterly West
These introspective poems examine an "atmosphere of lights" for sources of recognition. "Singularity," for Glazner the "heart of light," is a Jungian emblem meant to convey parallels between appearance of "the lighted shapes" of matter and spirit. Terms dealing with light (clarity, radiance, sheen) illuminate "the bitter interior" of human desire. Unlike his previous book, From the Iron Chair (LJ 5/1/92), set in a landscape of the Southwest, this poetry assesses contemporary life not by "the world's indifference" but by recursive investigation of "a fortune of surfaces" as seen "in the mind's eye." Glazner has an impressionist's delight in the way "elegant, branch-fluttered light" ebbs and flows, "however/ untranslatable." This shaping process ("everything/ changed to just the forms of itself") is both the root of visual art and the basis of autobiography. Acuity of perception, Glazner believes, enables one to eliminate everything irrelevant and try to fathom "a presence among presences." Heightening appreciation of observation, these uncompromising poems try to bring into focus "everything/ the world could never let us be." For all major poetry collections.-Frank Allen, Northhampton Community Coll., Tannersville, Pa.
"One of the most important and urgent new poets in the United States." -- Quarterly West
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