Reviewed by S. M. Lowenthal
+ − Survey 45:672 F 5 ’21 390w
BENÉT, STEPHEN VINCENT. Heavens and earth. *$2 Holt 811
20–21994
This collection opens with a long poem in two parts, Two visions of Helen followed by Chariots and horsemen; The tall town; Apples of Eden; The kingdom of the mad. The tall town is made up of poems of New York.
“So many moods and themes spread over the compass of this book, riotous and rapturous, whimsical and ironic, and undulating on waves of swift and thrilling music make ‘Heavens and earth’ an enjoyment to those who admire poetry when it is first of all music and imagination, and may be after these anything in the way of subject and ideal.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 29 ’20 1300w
“He has a swirling dexterity in syntax and rhythm, and practices a gorgeous, hot impressionism.”
+ − Nation 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 60w