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Article: The Surface of Last Scattering.(Review)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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The Surface of Last Scattering, by Gray Jacobik. Texas Review Press. $12.00.
Form and clarity, those Apollonian virtues run off the road by faster traffic during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, have reemerged in poetry. Today's verse often features classical contours. Even unity and coherence are back, the more ambitious poetry releases showing design, not just assemblage. But what retro fetish has so many poets hitching their verse to the dray horse of classical mythology? Yes, the Greek deities and Roman heroes are timeless; yes, their narratives, retold in new ways by new generations, continue to reveal us to ourselves--or however the blurb on the latest edition of ...