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Few poets of Timothy Liu`s generation
are better known or more widely celebrated. Each of his books has been
widely reviewed, and critics single him out as a master of language and,
in Marilyn Hacker`s words, as `a poet of eros in all its guises.` Gay
and Asian-American, Liu stands by nature outside the mainstream and brings
to his poetry a radical independence and ambition that can transform his
work into fire storms of conviction and insight. Hard Evidence is by far
his most ambitious book yet, bringing to language a wild delight and assertiveness
that make these poems among the freshest and most innovative of this or
any decade. |
