individual could not ask for a aut...

individual could not ask for a author of poems of greater modesty and precision than Ralph Mills. In nearly a dozen parts of poetry, along with criticism onward Theodore Roethke, Richard Eberhart, Edith Sitwell, and Kathleen Raine, Mills has quietly hon his poetic craft. In his mostly recent collection, A Window in Air, Mills's metrical compositions are stripped down to register the principally basic sensory perceptions. These lyrics are ground-zero verse with the interference of authorial voice and linguistic density reduc to a minimum, allowing for a clear presentation of natural facts:
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