A haunting and peculiar travelogue, Deeds of the Utmost Kindness employs forms as diverse as haiku and prose poetry in settings that range from Japan to the rural Ozarks to contemporary Moscow. The compelling strangeness of the poems' precise details exposes varied rhythms of thought and illustrated how different logics work in the metaphoric structures of changing places . Yet behind the uneasy sense of dislocation felt by the constant traveler lies the personal, essentially moral, voice of the poet as observer.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 01/01/1994
ISBN: 9780819512123
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.34w x 0.25d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/10/1994 pg. 58