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The Door in the Wall (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Charles Tomlinson’s poetry, including Collected Poems (rev. ed., 1987), The Return (1987), and Annunciations (1989), reveals his powers of natural observation, the transforming magic of his imagination, and the aesthetic shine of his sound. A painter and film writer in his youth, Tomlinson brings to his poetry a richness of visual and aural awareness that remains true to the “mutability” and “interdependency” of the human experience of nature without relinquishing the poet’s natural right to assert the shaping powers of his voice, imagery, and metaphoric...

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