Poetry. FORGET READING is Anthony Hawley's second collection for Shearsman Books. "As in THE CONCERTO FORM, FORGET READING testifies to Anthony Hawley's perfect vocalic pitch, the ability few poets have to find precisely the right 'note'—whether syllable, word, or echoing phrase—to give his densely woven and arresting imagery a true electric charge. 'Shampoo too,' reads one of the 'P(r)etty Sonnets,' 'measures how clean the sentence is.' Yes, and who else could get so much mileage ('specimen rays') from rhyming 'maybe' with 'garbage'? These are lyrics, not to read but to reread—and with the intensest pleasure"—Marjorie Perloff.
