Letter to a Sad Daughter. What's that Bryan Adams song again? Straight From The Heart? Now I'm just embarrassed at getting all verklempt.

Claude Glass is as good a drunkenness as I've ever seen or felt. Tin Roof: shelter, secrecy, intimacy. Rock Bottom: honesty, baring things (ew?). Skin Boat: where do you see yourself in history? How about in nature? Arguably all of the poems and poems-within-poems are about time, selves, the natural world. Some of the spaces just seem more sealed off than others. ( )

Some nice language. Good rhythm. Sometimes the imagery worked for me. Overall, I felt pretty ho-hum about Michael Ondaatje's Secular Love. A few poems were mildly captivating, but otherwise, I wasn't overly impressed. ( )