Unhurried Vision La Alameda Press, Alburquerque, NM, 2004
Unhurried Vision, and in this manner so it reads, from one new year to the next scribing a journal of living (1999) poetically in the moment, a creative endeavor of complex simplicity – as with the last moments of a moth in April’s entry, “The Small Things in Life”: “a tragedy we’re here to eulogize.”
Poetically intriguing throughout, for me these increments of a life living itself culminate with the “Autumn Equinox” –
“Day & night length even
Reporting the worst
The worst occurs.”Marking the change of tone and season from one poet’s journal to a tender
and ultimately informative tribute to his friend and mentor –“This year to you, Philip Whalen
falling down the stairs.”
Michael Rothenberg’s Unhurried Vision carries on a courageous form and literary legacy that will be well read for years to come.
