SOURCE: "What's Happening?," in New York Times Book Review, May 5, 1996, p. 16.

In the following review of The Dream of the Unified Field, Sacks praises Graham as a writer who is pushing poetry in new directions.

"Man has already begun to overwhelm the entire earth and its atmosphere, to arrogate to himself in forms of energy the concealed powers of nature, and to submit future history to the planning and ordering of a world government. This same defiant man is utterly at a loss simply to say what is; to say what this is—that a thing is." By the time Heidegger wrote those words, soon after the first use of nuclear weapons, he had turned his attention increasingly to poets, for it was they, he felt, who might not only reveal what is but do so with the sentient charge and the clarifying beauty needed to turn mankind...