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Surrounded by Friends

by Matthew Rohrer
Wave. Apr. 2015. 112p. ISBN 9781940696027. $25; pap. ISBN 9781940696034. $18. POETRY
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Says Rohrer (Destroyer and Preserver) of a painting by Paolo Caliari (i.e., Veronese), "I think there is/ a kind of attention I can pay this painting/ that Paolo can feel," and that kind of attention is evident throughout this collection of small, transparent, beautifully unfussy moments. From finding a child's lost drawing to contending with a teasing grandfather, these moments are never freighted with outsize emotion (a tack too many poets take) but unfold as lived. Lucid work from a poet heard on NPR.
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Apr 15, 2015
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