From Library Journal This first collection, selected by Charles Wright for "The National Poetry" series, introduces a poet with a distinct voice and compelling subject matter: his brother's traumatic 24-year life. In the title sequence, Andrews focuses on specific events: the birth, a blood clot, an angel's visitation, etc., proving himself adept at conventional observation. In the final sequence, "A Language of Hemophilia," Andrews takes Samuel Beckett and George Oppen as masters, applying language to break the constraints of life and death. While at times it becomes a mere play on words, the intensity of the subject is never far from the reader's mind. Unfortunately, shorter poems between these two masterful sequences are mediocre at best, often assuming a literary or religious persona. They lead one to question whether Andrews will retain his high power once he has written out his original source material.- Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New YorkCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product Description Poems deal with mortality, family life, nature, the past, religion, art, and health Review...you See The One After Bobrowski Animist At A Long Table The Brother's Country Dr. Farnsworth, A Chiropodist, Lived In Ohio... A Language Of Hemophilia May I Read You A Few Lines From Pepys' Diary? Paul Celan Postcards To Gunter Eich Private Collection So Many Small Flames Something's Not Right. You Can't Place It; Song Of A Country Priest Thinking Of Wallace Stevens Triptych: Augustine Of Hippo -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®