Volume 28, Number 20 · December 17, 1981
All Too Real
By Helen Vendler
Work, for the Night Is Coming
by Jared Carter
Macmillan, 47 pp., $5.95 (paper)
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981
by Adrienne Rich
Norton, 61 pp., $4.95 (paper)
One for the Rose
by Philip Levine
Atheneum, 80 pp., $5.95 (paper)
American poets have, on the whole, a distrust of fantasy or fictions; they tend to give even invented stories a coat of circumstantial and gritty realism, full of aggressive details—identifiable, limiting, specified items. Jared Carter's well-written new book Work, for the Night Is Coming specifies down to the fingers the look of men doing make-work in the Depression:
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