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Here's what other poets have said about Ted Olson's poetry: "The spare,
distilled poems in Breathing in Darkness have in them both the
beauty and the dread of being. These excellent poems are 'deep in life,'
in D. H. Lawrence's phrase, and they take the racing pulse both of the
self and of the world" "The understatement
of glancing away reveals the core solidity and profundity of these
poems." "The poems in Breathing
in Darkness spark quick moments of insight, surprise. Olson’s taut
lyrics evoke a life, a world. Alert to both familiar detail and wider
context, Olson sees the drama in the daily event, and the significance
of the larger perspective. These are poems of families, of fathers and
the complex stories of fathers and sons, as well as the vexed history of
the American South. They are also poems of a lover, of the bonds that
connect us, the painful and thrilling bonds we live by." "There are many
moments of enlightenment in this beautifully alert collection of poems.
It's heartening to see a poet of Olson's generation not only this
attentive both to the natural world and his own processes of feeling and
thought, but capable of using language to bring us, carefully and
colorfully, what he finds there." "The poems in Breathing
in Darkness show an exceptional attentiveness to both the natural
world and the complexities of the human heart. I enjoyed these poems
very much." "The spirit of elegy
taps its knuckle on the transparent surface of Olson's language, and
when the poem has your attention it directs it toward the mysterious and
encompassing business of the natural world. The intelligence at work
here is at the same moment austere and tender, remote and intimate; its
signal grief longs not to complain but to sing. Breathing in Darkness
is clean, able work, a new voice worth listening to. I hope this book
gets read."
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