Negative Positive
Title: A Stunning Achievement
Review: This book is a stunning achievement. I went from poem to poem in amazement at this writers ability to capture those moments of horror he endured as a political prisoner and transform them. Like Yeats said "a terrible beauty is born"This is a splendid example of the poetry of witness and I think it belongs in the company of Akhmatova's Requiem. When she was asked "Can you describe all this/and I said I can".That is what this writer did, with words of power and grace, that will linger in anyone's head. It is fortunate to come upon them.The poems on London filled me with longing for that city one never tires of.Buy this book. It will change your life.
Is the review positive or negative? 