Preparing a Room, Book Review

	Preparing a Room Poems by Victor Depta
	"Preparing a Room is a captivating poetic work that I could not put down. I was entranced by the compelling story with its startling detail that recalls the best realist fiction. It is also beautifully written with sensual language and powerful imagery that arouses the senses with the rich lyricism of the best modernist verse. With homage to Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, O'Connor, and Sherwood Anderson, this haunting , confessional tale of innocence and experience, maturity and death, recounts the inner life of its speaker as he grows up in Appalachia. It is a tale of despair and longing, natural beauty and human wastefulness, of sexuality celebrated and thwarted." Emory Elliott Editor of the Columbia Literary History of the United States

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