Seeing the Darkness
by
Bruce Cutler
Price
78 pages, $11.95 paper
ISBN
1-886157-16-2
['Angelita' has] sweeping narrative power, gorgeous visual detail, and varied and surprising music, the range of whose modulations is most effective when the poem is read aloud. A waiting minefield of sentimentality, occasionally but triumphantly just skirted here and there, somehow adds to the exhilaration. --Amy Clampitt
The lines of these poems remind me of Hemmingway at his best and the timelessness of Homer, yet they are as unique as the tragic city they remember. Together [these poems] become a 20th-century tale, perhaps as close to what we today can imagine as an epic. You will smell the smoke and hear the clamor of the multitudes. --Bill Bauer
Cutler is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Program and was the founding director of the Creative Writing Program at Wichita State University. He has published ten volumes of poetry, including Dark Fire (BkMk Press).
