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Reviews for Child is Working to Capacity
by Margaret Jamison, Director of the Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla
Tom Delmore's poetry is powerful stuff. His imagery ranges from gritty train yards to kitchen tables, from the sheen of a crow's feather to blood on the sands of Iraq, from a 1955 Ford to the plagues of Moses, all conjured with a brevity of language which mirrors their purpose. These are glimpses into times, places, people and myth. We are not meant to dissect and analyze, only to make acquaintance and reflect, and, far from sated, we inevitably return to meet again.
Sample from Child is Working to Capacity
Frida Full of Milagros
I want to hold hands
With Frida, and place
My index finger between her
Publicly pubic eyebrows.
Like crow wings stamped
For flight.
Slip myself into her widespread
portrait, and kiss her full
on her radiant red mouth.
All this below the infant
of Prague.
Sit like a skeletal couple
At the Ramos wedding
As lovers
Eat bright fruit
Off our ample laps.
Out of the oculus
Fascination arises
For the voluptuous sister
In partial undress,
As one might lust for mangoes.
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