The Hudson Review, October 1st, 2006
Masculine Poetics: Works, Days and Cars
ROBERT WELLS is A POET WHOLLY DEVOTED to memory. In this he reminds me of my friend, the late Canadian poet Dorothy Roberts, who wrote very little about her daily life as a housebound octogenarian in our college town but rather filled her poems with the world of her gentleman farmer father's homestead in New Brunswick and her childhood before and during World War I. One could not deduce anything about her present circumstances, or indeed much about the preceding decades, from reading her poetry; and so it is with Robert Wells. The structure of his book ...
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