Item Detail
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Finding Gold
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Fuller, John
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1967
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910
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Fuller, John
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Norris, Leslie
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Finding Gold
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London Magazine
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Jun-67
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7
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3
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86-88
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Finding Gold is the first collection of Leslie Norris (b. 1921), a less prepared debut than Bell's, but late, too. Some of his poems are bulked out with dull rhythms and language. He doesn't take short cuts enough, and is guilty of epithets (brazen Africa, aching silences, etc.) that really needed a rethink. This said, he emerges as a very likeable new voice, fresh, elegiac, organized (88). Thus Norris can write, and though sometimes in danger of turning out the usual nature-notes, he communicates a real sense of life endured, of the flux tamed (88).