The Heisenberg Variations

by John Bricuth

Winner of the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for the Best Book in Poetry, Texas Institute of Letters John Briuth treats the world with extraordinary wit and subtle humar-rare enough qualities in much twentieth-century poetry. Bricuth writes with gusto on a variety of subjects, from the act of writing poetry to the lives of Glenn Miller and Laurel and Hardy. His rare command of verse forms and wide range of tone make his work a distinctive addition to contemporary American poetry.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

Reviews

[Cody White]

Bricuth's persona is cerebral but no less volatile (and sometimes downright screwy) for it. The poems have a wide range of styles and interests, and there is probably something for everyone in here. Bricuth is one of the great voices in American poetry, though you don't hear about him much. He's done a couple excellent book-length poems, but it would be good to see another volume of lyrical verse like this one sometime.

[Nicholas]

Expecting some of the genius behind Gould's own famous Goldberg variations and the eccentricity implicit in the name appropriated by Bricuth I was not let down, yet the poems lack the structural density and spiritual manifestations, of the author's ill-concealed, and ill-fated idol, Hart Crane.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 B8499h 1976