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Points for a Compass Rose by Evan Connell (Paperback / softback, 2012)

We have here on the planet with us a man of such courage and strength of spirit that he has t lost what Alfred Adler calls 'the nerve for excellence.' He has kept it despite the burden of an awareness t only of the ermity of his project and of the limitations of his own human understanding, but also of the abject igrance and indifference of his audience... Somehow Connell makes you care. Many modern poets demand a good deal of work; Connell excites it. Sometimes the te-taker's [narrator] tone is hectoring, even belligerent; if you have any competitive spirit at all, you seize a thread--any thread--follow it, and lo, it traces a pattern... you understand at last that these tes are t tentative explorations, and far less are they 'expression: ' they are instead the magnificent artifices of a giant intellect... These poems are masterpieces. You could bend a lifetime of energy to their study, and have lived well. The fabric of their meaning is seamless, inexhaustible... their language is steely and bladelike; from both of its surfaces flickering lights gleam. Each page sheds insight on every other page; understanding snaps back and forth, tacking like a sloop up the long fjord of mystery. --Annie Dillard, Harper

Author Biography
Evan S. Connell is the author of eighteen books, including Francisco Goya,Deus Lo Volt!,Mrs. Bridge, and Son of the Morning Star. He has received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Date of Publication
16/10/2012
Country of Publication
United States

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