The Portal, paper collage, 2024 And so you think maybe that’s why we’re going out to the stars? Looking for our lost souls, is that it? Trying to get away from our evil planet to a good one? –…| The Used Life
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“Moved by beauty, attuned to the sublimity of natural things, livened by paradox, coaxed into song by pentameter, Ernest Hilbert’s rich new book covers more emotional ground than a reader has any right to expect.” – Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness “BRUTAL AND YET BEAUTIFUL”: CALIGULAN BY ERNEST HILBERT HILBERT, Ernest. […]| Ernest Hilbert
Hilbert’s sure-footed poems have the breathless urgency of a man telling others the way out of a burning building. Unafraid to startle, often winning out over recalcitrant material, they score astonishing successes. A bold explorer with few rivals, Hilbert enlarges the territory of traditional form. Sixty Sonnets may be the most arresting sequence we have had since John Berryman checked out of America - X.J. Kennedy| Ernest Hilbert
