Don't Think: Look - Softcover

Assam Tea Tastes
August Letter To A Friend
Before Christmas
Beverly
Bridgeport Station
Bus Song
Christmas Card In Memory Of Ted Berrigan And For Matteo ....
Collarbone
D-day 1989
Damn Fool
Dejection
Drought
Early April (1)
The Earrings Of Madame De
The Examining Room
Expressing What Is On My Mind
February 29, 1988
For Gerald Coble
Hero
Home (1)
Hunter's Moon Brithday
In Fun
In Passing
Inside A Japanese Painting
J.r.
Jack Gilbert
Jade Flower Palace
Joe Don Looney, R.i.p.
The Kid With
Labor Day
Lake Road
Lake Road Late August
Landscape
Late Winter
Listening For Jane
Lockerbie
Marni's Birthday
Masters Of Wit, 1958
Max Wants Out
Melancholy
Misremembered Edwin Denby Line
Morning Papers
Mother And Son
My Grandfather Shovelled Snow
Not Even A Cup Of Coffee
Of Small Delights In Idleness
Off 6th Avenue
On The Job
One Day
Out The Window
The Painters
Pardon, A Few Towns Over
Passerby In Spring
Peggy Gay
Playing Swallows Dare Open Study Doors
Poem (4)
Poem For Me Mother
Prose
Reading C.k. Williams's 'the Critic'
Reading An Old Friend's New Poems
Reading In Bed
Roast Red Hot Pepper
Rossa Fortuna
A Shower In June
Slipped Twice And
Snapshot
The Stars Are Huge In The Sky
Thanking Howard Norman For Paul Blackburn's The Dissolving..
This Is The Way
To Rachel
Trevor's Lake Ditty
Tu Fu In English
Twined Dreams
Walk Across Boston
West Concord
When I Read John Wieners's Selected Poems
With John In Muncie
Young Men Aging
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

Corbett's strength is his simple language and simple appreciation of what language can do. The landscapes, both internal and external, are faithfully rendered, vividly real: "My eyes liked to rest/ on that blue flecked peagray/ porcelain pot now smashed/ after the kitten's clunky leap/brought a thick book down." This attention to detail lends veracity to the narratives as well. "In socks and underwear/we're less flesh than smells." As important as this precision, sound contributes to every phrase. Few poets of our times attend so well to the ear; the internal rhyme and assonance are a pleasure. If these devices are the marks of an "older tradition," certainly the range of subject matter attests to Corbett as a man of his time. Literature, history, and philosophical musings mesh within quiet stories, scenes from everyday life. The title insists that we notice the things around us, even the "rough and vulgar." A good addition to any large collection.
- Louis McKee, Painted Bride Arts Ctr., Philadelphia
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