The Circle Line

Poetry. The figurative subtlety and range of these poems made this book an imaginative feast. Throughout I had a sense that I was being presented the story of a life by means of a deeper language as if Jorn Ake has figured out how to speak directly through the feelings that attach to actions objects and memories. With a work this metaphorical I look at what recurs--the desert and childhood photography and music violence on a personal and political scale--and there is an ongoing loving nod to the artists who have shaped this poets mind. I also sense that what drives his work is a desire to characterize the feeling of a time period the later 20th century with all its blindness/flying moth-crazy about the light. I cannot turn away from these poems. This is a fascinating book--Bob Hickok.