Reviews for Poets Laureate Of Kentucky

The average rating for Poets Laureate Of Kentucky based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-29 00:00:00 Mike Williams I felt this book was mediocre from beginning to end. Until the very last pages of the book, no poems caught my attention beyond the reading of their lines. The poem that did stand out, "For Tityrus," was a good read, but even so, of a type that I find suspect in general -- historical reference as model for present life. Lesser moments included a poem about a Grant Wood painting, a pair of rather dull sonnets, and some square-shaped linked stanzas about amaryllis. Even lesser was a pair of poems beginning with lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins, in which the Hopkins lines significantly exceeded the original material.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-23 00:00:00 Michael Gaeta The poems in this book seem most engaged when they are working with a narrative that reveals the speaker's intense relationship with the land, or home. I'm thinking especially of "At the Shade House" or "Achilles in the Heartland." These, for me, bring me closest to the sentiment Grace maintains as the foundation of every one of his poems.