Dorothy Nyren
Last Updated August 6, 2024.
"What is right in the depths hardly obtains in the sunshine," Edson muses in [The Childhood of an Equestrian,] his volume of poems that hover between the depths and sunshine, shifting from strangeness to horror and back again, with only an occasional slip into silliness…. A poetry of images and sudden aperçus, good for a shudder or a smile…. (p. 3992)
Dorothy Nyren, in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, December 15, 1972; published by R. R. Bowker Co. (a Xerox company); copyright © 1973 by Xerox Corporation), December 15, 1972.
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