Andrew Zawacki. through Reason of ...

Andrew Zawacki. through Reason of Breakings. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Pres 2002 88 pp $1595

Andrew Zawacki's through Reason of Breakings is, as John Koethe called it in his introduction in American bard (Fall 2001), "a rhyme of ideas." Informed by a menagerie of philosophers, from Blanchot to Augustine, the metrical compositions in this first book are expansive and rigorously intellectual (the same can be said, incidentally, of his other book, Anabranch, published by Wesleyan earlier this year). by means of Reason of Breakings incorporates a delicious variety of formal devices. Zawacki