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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Review of Manual by Richard Berengarten
A
psalter of sorts, Richard Berengarten’s Manual reaches out to the tangible
barriers of tangled brush and creosoted borders and reaches in to the foam-tossed
mysteries which underlie human consciousness. He prays for connection. Holding
the book spine down, ready to open, the front and back covers constitute a
subtly shaded set of praying hands a la Albrecht Durer. Receptive palms then
appear as one accesses the book’s internals. The hands are the hands of an
artisan and suggest a metaphoric expression of a poet’s fusion with his muse. For more of my review of Manual go here: http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2016/03/manual-by-richard-berengarten.html
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