Flaubert at Key West

Poetry. "Gifford's spare, elliptical poems, formally 'open' and underpunctuated but readily comprehensible.(reveal) the poet as a meditative, lonely observer, haunted by memory's 'ghosts' and caught in the seasonal vicissitudes of experience, with an eye for plain but evocative detail.at his best (Gifford) recalls William Carlos particular, lyrical but laconic, compassionate but unsentimental" -Publishers Weekly.