Alan Britt writes of the broad theme of exploration and how imagination moves freely through the inward and outward worlds. Imagination undresses as it prepares to travel (from the author's Introduction). He has a knack for bringing the past to life -- the poets and artists he knows as friends -- Blake, Marveil, Van Gogh, Vermeer -- seem to walk right into the room, a colossal intimacy. And he has a knack for the present too. These are not poems one simply praises. They are features of a new yet familiar sanctuary we enter, ...
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Alan Britt writes of the broad theme of exploration and how imagination moves freely through the inward and outward worlds. Imagination undresses as it prepares to travel (from the author's Introduction). He has a knack for bringing the past to life -- the poets and artists he knows as friends -- Blake, Marveil, Van Gogh, Vermeer -- seem to walk right into the room, a colossal intimacy. And he has a knack for the present too. These are not poems one simply praises. They are features of a new yet familiar sanctuary we enter, leaving our old shoes behind
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