Reviews for Patterns of transience

The average rating for Patterns of transience based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-17 00:00:00 Andrew Delrosario Essays on Lennox Lewis, Damon Runyon, the 1982 World Cup and the early days of The Comic Strip delight in this piquant, surly collection. True, the pieces have dated, but so does everything and, here, that’s half the excitement - there’s this feller named Martin Amis, and his new novel is called Money...

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-06 00:00:00 Ronald Phillips Jr Though this is a collection of essays, and most of them leaning very heavily into a personal narrative where Hass describes his relationship with a poet's work, I felt there was a larger argument at work in the book. It seems to me form is an organic structure for Hass, and it grows out of a poet's experiences and his identity. This doesn't mean that he surrenders himself to some touch-feely version of how a poem ought to be, Hass is as strict in his analysis of sonics, and rhythms, and meter. It does mean that these elements take on a character unique to a really good poet.