CATS OF THE TEMPLE - Softcover
Explores the delights and lessons of nature and the intricacies and wonder of things Japanese
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Since the appearance of Hundreds of Fireflies ( LJ 1/1/82), his poetic debut, Leithauser has been alternately praised and blamed for his role in the so-called neoconservative trend in American poetry: the recent revival of pre-existing formal structures and traditional prosodic devices. His new book, a "sibling companion" to the first, once again exhibits a reverence for technique. Elegant and subtle rhyme structures, exacting syllabics, and a clean, contemporary diction characterize highly pictorial lyrics that attain their sharpest relief when directed toward animals ("I watch a toad/ dusty, hugecross a blacktop road/ . . . landing each/ time like a splattered/ egg") and the landscape of Japan ("Flooded ricefields/ become lavender mirrors, snugly/ secured by green studs."). A refined and deftly realized collection. Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
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Few recent debuts in poetry have been greeted with the enthusiasm and acclaim accorded to Leithauser's Hundreds of Fireflies. His buoyant charm and ease of delivery won him a legion of admirers and a reputation as a Wunderkind. In this second volume of his verse, greater maturity and confidence are in evidence, but the mood is still light and playful. Leithauser relies very much on his eye and sense of humor, and is a wizard of description. Nothing is too trivial to be noticedthe encounter of a toad and a damselfly, for example, or an ostrich in the Kyoto Zoo being offered a pretzel by a frightened child. Leithauser trusts the world to reveal its own meaning and is modest about the extraordinary refractory powers of his own painterly mind. January
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0394741528
- ISBN 13 9780394741529
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages70
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