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Article: Trappings.(Review)
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- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Trappings by Richard Howard. Turtle Point Press, 8l pp., $14.95. That Howard continues to write poems of dazzling virtuosity should come as no surprise; beyond skill and erudition, however, Trappings, his eleventh collection, brims with undiminished youthful spirit. Exuberant and thoughtful, Howard remains a poet for whom lives past and present strike the deepest sympathy: the pride with which the artist scrawls on a last drawing "Done / without spectacles" ("Homage to Antonio Canaletto") is as touching as a child's wonder before the Diplodocus: "the Dinosaurs / may be extinct, but! they're not dead!" Howard writes as his boyhood self, recalling his first visit to the ...
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