{"id":50571,"date":"2022-04-25T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T19:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=50571"},"modified":"2022-05-03T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:46:49","slug":"book-review-free-sonnets-that-even-blake-would-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/04\/book-review-free-sonnets-that-even-blake-would-favor.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review<\/em><\/font>
Free Sonnets That Even Blake Would Favor<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exposing an existential silence and the pressures of art to countermand it.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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“All That Would Ever After Not Be Said <\/em>contains a sequence of free sonnets of experience that even Blake himself would favour. These small poems are tears for the tongue to be savoured once tasted, and like a drop for the eye, ear, or mind they restore perception to its rightful place. The poems expose existential silence and the pressures of art to countermand it. They are dark diamonds or jewels still carrying some of the sand from the pearl that begat them; heavy in the hand but somehow uplifting as they lead us if not towards grace then to an understanding of it. In the \u2018silent empire against conciliation,\u2019 with which Herman concludes this collection, we glimpse unearthed towers, which we now have a duty to raise.” \u2014 David Erdos<\/a> (review in M\u00fc 6<\/a><\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

POSTSCRIPT: <\/strong>Here are all four of Erdos’s poetry reviews<\/a> in M\u00fc 6 \u2014 JH<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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