Night Vision

In John Foy's Night Vision, warsgo onin the Middle East,violence isneverfar away,and the creatures of the field are "much the worse / for having been beneath the rotor blades."Written in an unclutteredidiom,these poems, technically adept,playacross a range of formsin a voice that stands out for its bitter clarity and directness.Theyare by turnscontemplative and savage,invokingMeister Eckhartbutacknowledgingthat"we die like dogs in the deep snow."If they offer solaceat all, it's in a plainspoken, dark humor.The result isan emotional immediacyunique in American poetry.