PositiveRhino PoetryA less successful poem like \'The Shovel\' is a merely competent elaboration of its first lines...Its humorless intensity and careful vagueness reminded me of a network crime drama’s cold open, a sterile tension-delivery device. But all Brown’s endings, including that poem’s, click. Successful poems predominate, and spiral out of stylish assertions to follow their own parlous implications and rhythms ... Brown has a nose for painful ambivalence.
