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Title: Hudgins Excels as Always
Review: I would dare to say that those who have problems with Babylon in a Jar perhaps have not read it closely enough. While what he does here is a great departure from his style in After the Lost War the poems still have a great deal of quality and are linked by the paradox between love and death, or Eros and Thanatos as Hudgins put it when I talked to him today. The dust of Babylon in a jar is a metaphor that can relate to almost every poem in the book, the collection is not haphazard as someone has suggested and while After the Lost War remains my favorite Hudgins work Babylon in the jar has some excellent gems of poetry inside and is eminitely readable.
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