Losses of Moment

Lou Suarez

“Lou Suarez’s poems are about what we can and can’t see.  Watch, look, see—usually these verbs are the pivots of his poems.  Even our inner lives are visible here; the imagination makes voyeurs of us all.  But what we see by means of these carefully made poems is not something like knowledge, but something both stranger and more familiar; a map of our puzzlement and wonder.” —William Mathews