[New-Poetry] National Bellows reviewed

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http://www.cprw.com/Houlihan/bellows.htm
As Reviewed By:
Joan Houlihan
Pretty Pieces 


Why Speak? by Nathaniel Bellows. W.W. Norton, 2007. 110 pages.? 
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Why speak? A good question. But this debut collection provokes more specific questions: In what way are these poems not short, short, stories? What governs their line breaks? Where is the power of trope, concision, sound, rhythm, the one right image that radiates from an emotional center? What drives these poems other than the descriptive, sometimes merely competent, writing of literary fiction?? 
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