Saner, Reg(inald) - Saner, Reg(inald) 1931–
Saner, Reg(inald) 1931–
An American poet, Saner is fascinated with landscapes and their rejuvenative effect. His poetic concerns with mysticism and American Indian culture link him with Gary Snyder. Climbing into the Roots, Saner's first collection, won him the Walt Whitman Award in 1975. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 65-68.)
Now if you believe, as many do, that a poem is a structure of language and not much more, then ["Climbing into the Roots"] is pretty good writing and probably deserves the handsome Walt Whitman Award…. Never mind if the metaphors are mixed …; the imagery at least has freshness, the lines are taut, the sounds and movements are roughly analogous to the actions they describe. And Saner is good at this, as he proves amply in many poems.
But what if a poem is more than a structure of language? What if it is a structure of meaning, feeling and experience, to which verbal technique contributes...
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