David Ray. The Death of Sardanapolus & Other Poems of the Iraq Wars.(Book review)

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David Ray. The Death of Sardanapolus & Other Poems of the Iraq Wars. Berthoud, CO: Howling Dog Press, 2006.

A poet of acute honesty and conviction regarding the eco-political planet we call home, David Ray in his new volume of poems exposes layers of deception in order to reveal the hypocrisies fueling the politics of American culture. Ray writes like a man whose life depends upon honest statement. Many poets possess a similar sense of conviction, but few possess the clarity of language that communicates such a telling urgency. Note, for example, the diction in Ray's ...


        
    


                
                

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