Andrew Goodspeed lauds the daring of Kevin Ducey
by Ernie on 27/09/07 at 9:41 am
In this month’s issue of the Contemporary Poetry Review, Andrew Goodspeed writes about the Kevin Ducey’s book Rhinoceros: “Kevin Ducey’s great strength is his daring. He frequently appears silly, he risks silliness in his work, and this silliness sometimes succeeds admirably. Few modern poets have that sense of daring, and it is a point to Ducey’s credit that he has attained this in his first collection. At his best he is genuinely amusing, and he writes serious poetry with an eye for the offbeat, the unexpected, and the peculiar. Yet he also possesses a fine lyric ability, one that appears suddenly, unexpectedly, and arrestingly. Amidst the hurly-burley of Rhinoceros, one occasionally glimpses lines of such unforced beauty that the general welter of cultural reference suddenly grows still, and one senses that one is reading poetry of substantial accomplishment.”
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