SOURCE: "The Grammar of Glamour: The Poetry of Jorie Graham," in New England Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, Fall, 1992, pp. 252-61.

In the review below, Jarman compares The End of Beauty to Region of Unlikeness, praising the former but finding the form and content of the poems incompatible with those of the later collection.

"The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat." Eve's famous excuse suggests that she has not only been tricked but charmed. To use an old Scottish word, a glamour has been thrown over her eyes, in her case, the allurement of knowledge. For Jorie Graham, the beguiling serpent is time; its succession and linearity give birth to history. Her poetry seeks to break the spell that holds us in time, requiring that history have a beginning, middle, and end, and that art, especially literature and particularly poetry, be mimetic and made up of similitude, metaphor, and...