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By Lisa Haynes. 2003. Warwickshire, UK: Comrades Press. 140 pp. $30.99 hardback.
What is the use of poets in a mean-spirited age? Friedrich Holderlin, 'Bread and Wine'
Though Comrades Press editor Verian Thomas' encomium may appear to some a bit florid, its spirit is no less warranted for this outstanding book of verse that has already earned redoubled praise from the literary community. Such praise is well deserved, for imagistic and visceral strength is the artistic salience of Lisa Haynes' poetry as she lures the reader with refreshingly intense language and endings that offer the subtle and veridical power of rhetorical restraint.
One of her fortes is enhancing imagery through a skillful play of metaphors. In "The Body That Used To Be My Father," we find the magnificent lines "eyes tightly swollen like port-holes / on a sinking ship." In "What You Didn't Know, N'ser," we find this complex metaphor:
What you didn't know,...
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