Article: A Window in Air.

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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