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The Steel Veil
Reviews
Albert Goldbarth:
“Jack Marshall has been gifting his poems to the world for over four decades, and this latest book is a stirring addition to that bounty. With poems grievous in the face of death, angered at political malfeasance, bemused at the marvels and incongruities of daily life, fiercely personal, embracingly global, and sometimes slyly formal, sometimes casually free, this collection is like a sampler of the tropes of his generation, finessed with the riskiness of always being genuine.”
Pattiann Rogers:
“In The Steel Veil, a reader will find poems that are wrenching with the truth of loss; poems that contain marvelous, strange, and appropriate metaphors; lines that build, connection upon connection, to form stunning structures; poems quiet with the patience of age; agreeable sentiments; sharp, arguable sentiments; all this in the restraint and rending of a poet reflecting deeply on memory and the moment.”
Gerald Stern:
“Jack Marshall’s poetry, which combines the personal and the political in a unique way, is both hard and beautiful. He has reached the age where memory comes flooding in but he refuses self-pity by virtue of his brilliant language, and his use of form. Most of all by a sheer love of life. An extraordinary poet.”
Alan Williamson:
“Jack Marshall's strengths—intelligence, precision, humor, sparkling verbal play—have long placed him high in my personal canon. But this book adds something new, a heart-wrenching simplicity and seriousness. He is starting to hold his own with the great poets of old age whom he invokes.”
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