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Title: Literal and little else.
Review: This is an unexceptional example of the workman-like verse that too often passes these days for poetry. R.T. Smith may occassionally write a decent line, but his poems are never able to rise above the level of the literal. He seems to have no notion of how language works figuratively. Anyone who is looking for a poetry with any spiritual or mythic depth will find this book a large waste of time. In concept and execution these poems are mediocre at best. Indeed, to say that is to be kind.
