Trace Elements.(Review)(Brief Article)

From: Poetry | Date: June 1, 1999| Author: YEZZI, DAVID | Copyright information

Trace Elements, by Barbara Jordan. Penguin. $14.95.

Barbara Jordan's second collection, while more syntactically scumbled and abstract than her first, proceeds in a similar manner. Like a botanist crossed with a postulant, Jordan maps onto the natural world the disquieted speculations of a religious contemplative. In "Meander," Jordan calls on the renowned Bishop of Hippo to illustrate her method: "Consciousness as landscape, / Augustine was mindful of it. `The caverns o...

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