Stained Glass

“Stained Glass is a distinguished and elegiac book: somber, frequently bitter, but always invested with an authentic, quite marvelous aesthetic dignity. It marks the emergence into highly individual voice of an important poet of the eminence of the late May Swenson, beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets. Some of the poems—‘Season Due,’ ‘Science Lessons,’ most of all, ‘The Broken Pot’—are worthy of canonization. —Harold Bloom