Angles of Incidents

Poetry. "Jon Curley does not work within inherited registers and meters of the rhetorical tradition..., a tradition whose paradigm is perfection; instead this younger poet, uninterested in nostalgia, finds the music of his own time, or better to say he creates it. That he allows this music to guide his poems toward their provisional truths, the only truths anyone can hope to know—that he estabishes a music and within it a way of knowing authentic to our present—is a testament not only to hi...