Daryl Hine
&: A Serial Poem
Poetry English-Language
Daryl Hine, Chicago [originally from New Westminster, British Columbia], &: A Serial Poem.
(Fitzhenry & Whiteside; distributed by the publisher) (ISBN 978-1-55455-164-4)
Daryl Hine’s is a cultured voice. It avoids stuffiness, egoism and shallow ironies. At the centre of this hailstorm of rhyme is a calm – one made of seeming trifles, yet with thinking that is profound. It is a reflection on civilization as a whole, and is the summing up of a life in particular weighed against eternity.
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