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Article: A Window in Air.
- Article from:
- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
- Author:
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One could not ask for a poet of greater modesty and precision than Ralph Mills. In nearly a dozen books of poetry, along with criticism on Theodore Roethke, Richard Eberhart, Edith Sitwell, and Kathleen Raine, Mills has quietly honed his poetic craft. In his most recent collection, A Window in Air, Mills's poems are stripped down to register the most basic sensory perceptions. These lyrics are ground-zero poetry, with the interference of authorial voice and linguistic density reduced to a minimum, allowing for a clear presentation of natural facts:
this faintest rain more of a mist on vine leaves
("This/faintest/rain," 22)
Despite this emphasis, Mills ...
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