Brotherly Love"A spectacular achievement which handles brilliantly the mysterious relationship between spirit and flesh, history and vision, intent and act, dream and reality."
--Anthony Hecht "The poem is an astonishing feat of historical and literary imagination, and... should appeal to a very wide audience.... Brotherly Love... realizes fully the perspectives of both past and present and relates them coherently. It preserves and gives meaning to the American past; its hero embodies a worthy ideal; and it raises the great issues of national identity and policy. If it is not an American epic, I do not know how one could be written now.... [W]ith each reading it grows, expands, and develops richer meanings and further resonances in the mind." –Monroe K. Spears, Washington Post Book World "I have never before seen such a connection between the historical and the imaginative, nor have I encountered in many a long day such a strong and persistent lyricism within a larger dramatic compass." –James Dickey |
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