From: The Literary Review | Date: January 1, 1993| Author: Hansen, Tom | COPYRIGHT 1993 Fairleigh Dickinson University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Perhaps the most impressive poems in this book are those dozen set on or near water. Fishing or sailing or just standing on shore and staring at sky and ocean - Makuck renders the look and feel of such experiences in all their vivid particularity and violent unpredictability, as in the conclusion to "The Sunken Lightship Off Frying Pan Shoals," where something unseen, imagined, hoped-for, or as-yet unknown, is slowly reeled in from the depths or, in other poems, is glimpsed as it b...