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Mr. Fenton has already written four or five of the poems future anthologists will squabble over. "Out of Danger" has moments of Villon, and moments where Gilbert and Sullivan are trying to overthrow Queen Victoria. "William Logan, The New York Times Book Review"
Ever since he precociously arrived on the scene in the early 1970s, barely 20, Fenton has had a voice-- a range of voices, a good pair of ears, an alert and often disconcerting knack of suddenly doing something different...Fenton has few imitators. He is "sui generis," veering in [this] book from the most naked, exposed love lyrics (look at 'Serious, ' 'Out of Danger') to hypnotic, cunningly crazy flights of rhetoric ('Out of the East, ' 'The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah'). I feel that Fenton, with each impulse towards a new poem, "has" to make it new. He listens attentively to the voices in his head and, when the moment comes, it comes. And the whole dazzling performance works because the craft, the techniques have been tuned and turned and made ready. This is a wonderful book. "Anthony Thwaite, The Sunday Telegraph (London)"
Here is a strong, fresh, pleasant wind blowing away the convoluted miasmas of most of his contemporaries, and the wind carries much clearer, cleaner, more complex and intensely memorable messages than the miasmas do. "Hilary Corke, The Spectator""
"Mr. Fenton has already written four or five of the poems future anthologists will squabble over. Out of Danger has moments of Villon, and moments where Gilbert and Sullivan are trying to overthrow Queen Victoria." --William Logan, The New York Times Book Review
"Ever since he precociously arrived on the scene in the early 1970s, barely 20, Fenton has had a voice-- a range of voices, a good pair of ears, an alert and often disconcerting knack of suddenly doing something different...Fenton has few imitators. He is sui generis, veering in [this] book from the most naked, exposed love lyrics (look at 'Serious, ' 'Out of Danger') to hypnotic, cunningly crazy flights of rhetoric ('Out of the East, ' 'The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah'). I feel that Fenton, with each impulse towards a new poem, has to make it new. He listens attentively to the voices in his head and, when the moment comes, it comes. And the whole dazzling performance works because the craft, the techniques have been tuned and turned and made ready. This is a wonderful book." --Anthony Thwaite, The Sunday Telegraph (London)
"Here is a strong, fresh, pleasant wind blowing away the convoluted miasmas of most of his contemporaries, and the wind carries much clearer, cleaner, more complex and intensely memorable messages than the miasmas do." --Hilary Corke, The Spectator
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