Trappings.(Review)

The Antioch Review | June 22, 2000| | Copyright

Trappings by Richard Howard. Turtle Point Press, 8l pp., $14.95. That Howard continues to write poems of dazzling virtuosity should come as no surprise; beyond skill and erudition, however, Trappings, his eleventh collection, brims with undiminished youthful spirit. Exuberant and thoughtful, Howard remains a poet for whom lives past and present strike the deepest sympathy: the pride with which the artist scrawls on a last drawing "Done / without spectacles" ("Homage to Antonio Canaletto") is as touching as a child's wonder before the Diplodocus: "the Dinosaurs / may be ...

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