Title: Interesting but uneven
Product review: Anyone who mentions Cees Nooteboom, E. M. Cioraan, Wang Wei, and Gerard Manley Hopkins is sure to get my attention for I love them all. Therefore, I am biased for Charles Wright's "Appalachia".Charles Wright has many wonderful images: "Remembered landscapes are left in me / The way a bee leaves its sting". There are also lines of religious depth: " . . . to get to God, pull both your feet back - / One foot from out of this life, one foot from the other".Unfortunately, at the end of the book, what I recalled are wonderful lines not wonderful poems. Well worth reading, even rereading and certainly better than much of contemporary poetry.
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