For the Kingdom

by Anthony Piccione

In the tradition of Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, and James Wright, Anthony Piccione writes rich, imagistic poems that jar the reader with their brilliant simplicity. "His poems build by the most essential, primary materials...yet sustain the effect of vision... Piccione's images are the kinds of dreams we rewrite in order to make sense of ourselves."--Stanley Plumly, American Poetry Review

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

Reviews

[Steven Logan]

It was ok.

[Doug]

It took a third of the book for me to warm to this collection of poems, but it succeeds in strange ways. Even where individual poems seem at first weak, their cumulative effect works. Lines are often too private for public grasp, but as they add up a distinct, sympathetic voice develops. Here's one of my favorite closings, from "The Holy Land on Television."

"It is the air, something in the air needs us too much. / A minister comes on, a nice man with a maniac's smile. / Gray dinosaurs of love are grazing behind his eyes."