Adam Wainwright’s Reviews > The Fire of Joy: Roughly Eighty Poems to Get By Heart and Say Aloud > Status Update

The pages are not that dense, and I believe the book is in chronological order. A lot of the older verses are somewhat lost on me; the language is too archaic and perhaps I lack the grounding and nuances of double meanings.

Some are good, usually the darker ones. Ones about ladies are not really me. Ezra Pound is mentioned and is ok: but Fascist!

Three poems in. Had a break. Just read 'Elegy' by Chidiock Titchborne which I have found more moving due to the circumstances - written *just* before he was hung, drawn and quartered for treason, as a part of the Babington Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I.