By Scott Hightower
An international of heritage is an international of locations and probabilities. In Tin Can vacationer Scott Hightower attracts from a legacy better than the boundaries of private historical past, physique, and model. From the tough Protestant panorama of his local primary Texas to the pageantry of the old structure of St. Maria in Trastevere, Rome, he persues the restrict of the poet. the place precisely does one commence and the realm begin? Hightower displays an international containing AIDS and melanoma, Caravaggio and van der Werff. Nature, interpersonal relationships, and the tradition of the world-from basic to extraordinary-are all reasonable online game. His participating, erotic self, looking for its personal truest and so much pressing expressions, takes heavily Blake's caution of errors which may lessen the human center to a lifeless cog of a laptop (Blake's specific phrases are a mill with advanced wheels.) The breadth and mastery of this awaited debut quantity is matched by means of the poet's insistence at the therapeutic and reworking energy of the human mind's eye. those aren't notes from an artless heart-but observations from a simmering world.
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