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Title: Waken Your Soul
Review: I love the poetry of John Wood, who I believe may be the greatest living poet in the English language. Wood gives expression to the deepest feelings of empathy of any poet I have read, silently or aloud. His choice of words and images evokes the strong passions associated with sexual hunger and emotional loss. I not only see the characters in his poetry, but I feel what they feel and fall out of my world and into the world of the poem.Excerpt from "The Perils of Beauty:""That beauty's peril lies beyondany skeptic's doubt, beyondthe conundrums of cool, inscrutable sages, .... . .she was still combing, and at ten o'clockwomen were talking to her, but she just combedand combed and stared at the sun, ..."My best effort to describe the poetry of John Wood is to say that it is deeply sensitive emotion captured in words. Maybe that is all poetry, but John Wood does it better than most.
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