Kimmelman and Caruso together have wrought a lyrical splendor. Kimmelman's deft poems - their lightness, their space, their languid-ness - beautifully match Caruso's evocative watercolors. A joy to read and a joy to behold. They have created a gift for the world.

Kimmelman's use of an overall presentation of Bronk's "World" in peregrinations both biographical and literary, serves both contemporary theory and literary history in this very readable survey of one of this century's most influential poets and thinkers. I found myself finally liberated, along with Bronk, from the yoke of Stevens' mind-bending alteration of the american poetic topos, free to investigate the strands and filaments of this poet's lexical world with new license. A rewarding journey, despite the fact that the poet's own work might sometimes make us react quite the contrary.