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Robert Archambeau Home and Variations Salt, 2004
Robert Archambeau's new collection belongs to a species nearly extinct today: the poetry of serious wit. Whether memorializing the "victory over the sun" of the Russian Futurists, or submitting Vermeer's View of Delft to elegant ekphrastic variations, or slyly sending up the academic left in his deliciously nasty "In Elsinore," Archambeau has perfect pitch. Home and Variations will leave you smiling with admiration at its author's inventiveness.
Marjorie Perloff, Standford Univerisy |
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