Prairie Style Best Yet
Okay, so I'm a biased Giscombe lover, having much enjoyed Cecil's poems since I first heard and read them in an MFA workshop in late seventies at Cornell. He has always had his fine way of coming up with just the right words in just the right order, and in this new book written prosepoem style he lets his prime choice vocabulary do all the great work: thinking, entertaining, provoking, mystifying. Though he's always been great at the line, the clever enjambment, now he makes syntax haul the big meaningful load of each wonderful poem. If you like trains, foxes, ambivalence, ambiguity, astounding insights, you'll like this book. Well deserves the American Book Award!
