Taking Eden: Poems

by Robert Clinton

A haunting new voice--echoing Robert Frost, Garcia Lorca, and a dash of the Brothers Grimm.

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Lauren · Rating 2 out of 5]

Does one keep a book for just one poem when the others feel stripped of all energy by the sharp blade of structure - cut to the quick until all blood is gone? What if that one poem is like a still night filled with moths hurling their bodies against dim windows, with light and shadow, with the prick of cold and he glow of inner longed-for, remembered warmth? It is a slender book after all, and there may come a day when the slow, pale meter of the other poems feel like meditation, not lack.

[Allison · Rating 2 out of 5]

ehhh. Some of the poems were really moving for me, but I found myself not being very forgiving with the others.