Shooting Hoops in the Dark

Joyce Sutphen, former poet laureate of Minnesota, noted that Doug Linder's poems are marked by "transfers of experience" as he "looks for ways to pass his 'sense of place' down to the next generation (and the next)." Linder admits in Shooting Hoops in the Dark, "We want them to love what we love." Sutphen adds, "Happily for us" his collection "brings us a long way there." Linder's poems suggest that life is what you see and feel; that looking for hidden meanings is a waste of time. This oft...