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Title: Yes yes I said yes I will yes
Review: So goes Molly Bloom's quote at the end of ULYSSES--or something like that, at least. That is the kind of passion I felt in B.J. Ward's book. What I also saw, though, is a keen eye towards accuracy in images, and a vulnerability that other, more popular poets, don't incorporate in their works. It is a vulnerability that I think most of us feel but has not been expressed this well in modern poetry, which I find to be too shmaltzy or sentimental or, just the opposite, too calculated and intellectual. Ward has it just right--what a balance he has struck! What a writer he is! My favorite poets are John Keats, William Shakespeare, and him. I wish there were more information about him available on the internet.
