Such Rich Hour Poems

"Swensen convinces the reader to follow her arrays of fragments by grounding them in a compelling source...Swensen reins in the use of disjunctive techniques...by structuring the volume according to a clear pattern... The Duc de Berry's book of hours inspires an ekphrastic poem dated the first of each month, and Swensen's innovative use of the ekphrastic mode (a project she continues from TRY, her previous collection) is the volume's most significant accomplishment....Swensen's ekphrases are distinguished by her attentiveness to the perceptual lacunae and artifice inherent in these efforts to give voice to the visual: one figure 'pointed and smiled, but I couldn't hear what he said.'"Swensen, Cole is the author of 'Such Rich Hour Poems', published 2001 under ISBN 9780877457756 and ISBN 0877457751.