<strong>Circle Routes</strong> contains a recurring joyfulness that invites us into thosebrightest of spaces memory and meditation. The poets feelings are somet... » 

Circle Routes contains a recurring joyfulness that invites us into thosebrightest of spaces memory and meditation. The poets feelings are sometimessharp with deliberate and thoughtful sarcasm they can also soar with lyricalsweetness. John Minczeski has a penchant for winged thingsnot only planesbut mayflies bats as well as the engagements of the human heart. Even thesimple niris that starts life as boxing gloves and ends with the smell of bridesmaids becomes in his attentive poem an object of weightlessnessand wonder. Minczeski takes on many concerns the personal past history andits unsettlements natural history some poets that read like travel piecesthough certainly they are about inner space as much as outer space. CircleRoutes is a fine sweetspirited ambitious beautifully accomplished book. «