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Review "Cohen's poetry is a kind of highly polished, metaphysical poetry (but firmly rooted in the realities of present-day urban existence). I think his is a unique voice which sounds like nobody else's, except perhaps the quieter lyrical poems of Hart Crane–one of the high points in twentieth-century poetry and a path which, curiously, few poets have chosen to follow. Whether or not Cohen has done so, his poetry hungers after the sublime in the same way Crane's does, without making any concessions to the ancillary graces and seductions of poetic language, yet achieving them almost fortuitously, through his intense concentration on the task at hand: the making of the poem." (John Ashbery) From the Publisher 6 x 9 trim. From the Back Cover "Cohen's poetry is a kind of highly polished, metaphysical poetry (but firmly rooted in the realities of present-day urban existence). I think his is a unique voice which sounds like nobody else's, except perhaps the quieter lyrical poems of Hart Crane--one of the high points in twentieth-century poetry and a path which, curiously, few poets have chosen to follow. Whether or not Cohen has done so, his poetry hungers after the sublime in the same way Crane's does, without making any concessions to the ancillary graces and seductions of poetic language, yet achieving them almost fortuitously, through his intense concentration on the task at hand: the making of the poem." --John Ashbery About the Author MARC COHEN was born in Brooklyn and raised in Long Island. He is the author of the chapbook On Maplewood Time and Mecox Road, and his work has appeared in three editions of The Best American Poetry. He served as an editor for the Intuflo Chapbook Series and was awarded grants from the Fund for Poetry in 1990 and 1992. He splits his time between New York City and Sag Harbor.