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Title: The Borgo of the Holy Ghost (May Swenson Poetry Award Series) by Stephen McLeod, Richard Howard ISBN: 0-87421-420-3 Publisher: Utah State University Press Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Bravo!
Comment: I loved this book because, simply put, Stephen McLeod has a crush on the world. Like a lot of crushes, this one breathes it all in. With startling detail it records all it sees, invests emotional risk at the least prompting, and generally rockets like a Texas bareback rider through the exquisite and beautiful sadness of it all. As I said - a crush. Thrilling, the nearness of the intoxication, the pure living breath of the beloved. But, unlike a lot of other crushes, this one is actually requited. Requited by the poems that result from this enamored encounter with the world. Poems whose mere existence is proof of what the beholder receives from the beloved. That chance to gaze without apology on beauty incarnate. Line after line confirms this love affair consummated by the poet's fluent observation of the world in which he lives. McLeod's is a poetry of style and wit, and yet it's constantly open to the weak-kneed sweet surrender of the human heart as it travels toward its inexplicable destiny. Seventy-five years after Hart Crane wrote, "Permit me voyage, love, into your hands..." Stephen McLeod's poems complete that journey.

Rating: 5
Summary: don't forgo borgo
Comment: "The Borgo of the Holy Ghost" like all books comes from the experience and the expression of the writer. Stephen McLeod connects with the reader. All Roads Lead to Kansas uses a poem to say something that couldn't otherwise be said. McLeod's poetry is spiritual. His 25 years of writing have put him in an enviable position. I look forward to his next book.

Rating: 3
Summary: Ok
Comment: What we have here is a book that clearly shows its author has talent and skill. But the voice is not that indistinguishable from dozens of other poets all wanting to be the next Mark Doty. This is a safe collection--not that it avoids risky subjects--but that all of its subjects (art, fashion, AIDS)fall into the careful boundaries expected of a gay poet writing today. You could do worse. . . .