The Burning Door

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Poetry. Very few more recently invented forms feel a truly usable engine of meaning and feeling. The 'cadae' in Tony Leuzzi's THE BURNING DOOR are just that--you notice the formal pleasure, but the poems themselves are what thrill. Leuzzi couples throughout this book authority of perception, the fragrance of parable, and striking, often unflinching images, with a balancing uncertainty and highly elliptical bent. He asks the kinds of questions that invite their own unanswered consequence to flood the reader. The result is just what is wanted from any book of poems: the exhilaration of discovery.--Jane Hirshfield.