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"Mature in both voice and vision....The nature lyric is the art at which he excels, eschewing the traps of ego and shaping crystalline detail with the motion of thought in a style that evokes both A. R. Ammons and Robert Frost....There is much to recommend here." --Library Journal "Witte's interest in casual American speech...suggest Robert Frost, while the austerity of his diction, and his more than passing interest in mortality, imply lessons learned from Anthony Hecht. His search for human lesson in gardens and fields, and his attraction to green retreats, even suggests Frost's sometime model Horace, who propounded wisdom from his Sabine farm." --Publishers Weekly "Powerful...exquisite...brilliantly imagined....Witte's poetry is notable for its imagery, which is informed by the intense interest that is love." --Academia "A genuine religious sensibility informs these poems, animated not by allegiance to doctrines, rituals, or commands, but rather by a sense of mystery.... If you read only one book of poems this year, make it this one." --Frank Wilson, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Inspiring and complex...thought provoking." --Midwest Book Review "The Apparitioners is George Witte's first book of poetry, but you would never guess it from his confident, ironic style, which moves easily from colloquial speech-rhytms to rich natural description....Like a Frost of the suburbs, Mr. Witte regards the cozy, domesticated landscape he inhabits with an unsettling lucidity, which gives everything he sees the aspect of a parable or a warning....Anyone who has felt intimations of mortality in our American abundance will recognize the power of Mr. Witte's poems." --Adam Kirsch, New York Sun | Contact Us | Reviews of The Apparitioners | The Apparitioners: Poems | Deniability Sample Poems | | Return Home | Readings and Events | George Witte Biography | Purchase Deniability or The Apparitioners | Reviews of Deniability: Poems | |
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