For all the geography proposed in his poems--Houston, coastal Connecticut, Bayou Louisiana, San Francisco, Paris--and for all the years accounted for in the preparation of this his first book, Jeffrey Greene's strong voice is resonantly of a piece and secured: located in a firm spiritual identity. Greene's mode is to allow the detail, the moment, its own developing ignition, its own opportunity to fill out the figure. Many of these poems, in f...
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