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| | Madoc : A Mystery |
 | | Hes set himself a grand canvas upon which to paint his masterpiece here, and hes not so transparent that he easily exhausts close readings. |
 | | An Irish poet who has become, or must be becoming, an American poet does more than bridge the Atlantic with this grand work, singlehandedly with it he redefines American literature. |
 | | Monticello through Lewis and Clark to Chomsky, Detrrida and Hawking, he, phrasing in its final lines, "...has sent a shiver, de dum, de dum,..." The poems complexity pushes the sum of all Western tradition from the Classical Greeks to sinter in the American crucible. |
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