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...true heart of the poems is found in these comments. It is not actually the objects that Salter is writing about but rather perceptions of those objects. The reader is drawn in by these perceptions. Seeing through Salter's eyes, we begin to understand her connections, how her mind works. In "Libretto" images of a record player and a silk couch lead to the past, so we see what these images mean to the narrator...
...more often, Salter's poems have a certain freshness, using everyday occurences as gateways to show the reader paths of ideas he never would guessed at. At one point, she hears children playing the game Marco Polo and speaks of the sounds as "heightened with the importance of the half-understood." Salter's poems make us feel that everything around us is only half-understood, that everything has depths. She does not explore all these depths, but simply shows a bit of what she sees behind these objects, what they make her think of. In this way, she heightens...
...afraid to face. There is a perpetual tension between the two; Lloyd is sexually crippled and jealous of Mae, who has been seduced by an unbearable desire to educate herself. Indeed, at the school where she goes to learn rudimentary reading and mathematics, she has met an advanced reader named Henry, and she is falling in love...
...local color. His poetry collection Elegy for the Southern Drawl draws on traditional themes of family, nature and religion, but grows throughout the collection to explore more obscure angles of the human experience. While Jones' poems initially evoke responses of tranquility and ease, by the end of Elegy the reader grown where Jones (NOT READABLE) lament...
Jones' poetic voice fosters a direct, engaging relationship with his reader, a relationship that is open and honest and that allows the reader to feel both trusted and trusting...