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Few poets of the twentieth century have used traditional rhyme and meter as triumphantly as Timothy Steele. His unambiguous resort to these devices in all their potential subtlety gives his work an almost Mozartian quality: there he is, located securely in the graces of his form, indubitably in there somewhere, but where? There is no need to know. His ironic, impersonal presence makes the world visible (sometimes visionary) to us. Like Whitman’s grandiose ‘Myself,’ Steele’s and Mozart’s negligible self includes everything, transforming the trivial quotidian of our suburban lives into something marvelous. (Richard Moore)

The term ‘lapidary’ has by now become pejorative; but Steele brings so much winning zest to his cutting of the agate that he might rehabilitate the word as a term of praise. Aside from the aesthetic pleasure his work affords, there is a controlled but powerful current of feeling in almost everything he writes . . . (Robert B. Shaw)

PW Logo PressestimmenTechnically, Steele is superbly commanding, offering witty and subtle rhymes that lilt just slightly at the end of carefully metrical lines . . . His technical esprit, in fact, is so impressive that one may be tempted to read the poems as abstracted formal expressions. But to do so would mean missing Steele’s thematic range, from satirizing urge to wistfulness and a more profound consciousness of pain . . . His aesthetic is both prudent and liberating. (Publishers Weekly)

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