RaveOn the SeawallBlount is, among other things, a poet of image. His images are exciting, unique, and often deepened or complicated through repetition both within individual poems and across the collection ... At large, Blount’s poems dredge these particular moments of a personal history while reaching across and intersecting with the larger scope of American history ... \'I am a poet after all,\' Blount writes in the prologue, and he proves this in image after image — each more precise and revealing, in the way a police cruiser’s light, or a stage’s light, or the spangling of a multitude of stars can reveal.
