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Wright relies too heavily on bluntly stated epiphanies, and his sincere lyrical tone soon becomes static. Striking images and strange insights are rare; most of the poems are predictably profound. The ending of “The Knowers?? is typical: “dead leaves / come back as green / leaves: only / we / don’t return,” he writes. The smell of snow is a recurring motif in the poems, and there is a certain chilly, blandly poetic quality to the volume as a whole...
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