The Fire Fetched Down
by George Bradley

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Book Review: Full Bodied Sip of George Bradley
Summary: 5 Stars

My favorite poem is Bradley's "A Georgic for Douglas Crase," ostensibly about the fine art of wine-making--from the planting to the harvesting to the tasting and bottling. However, the care with which the speaker instructs the grower is a metaphor for the writer's ars poetica. Since poetry can be defined as compressed language, Bradley's word choice is as exact as humanly possible. Like the variables which beset the wine-maker, this poet wends his way through the labyrinth of human discourse--the oral and written--to produce highly individualized poems, rare vintage all.

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