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...find in 1998: he is old andwise, having lived through the turmoil of EasternEurope under communism, yet he is a storytellerpoet more concerned with the forests than withpeople. He does not run from his own historicalcontext; but he, in a move that will perhaps beincreasingly repeated, bravely attends to himselfand many of the old cares of poetry in their turn.He certainly does not flee his time, carelesslyrutting in transcendentalism or other naiveaesthetics. In fact, his language and reliance onoblique image is, if anything, a testament to thecomplexities of the present and the wisdom ofcontemporary poetry not to state naively what...
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