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Title: Radiant Silhouette: New and Selected Work, 1974-1988 by John Yau ISBN: 0-87685-774-8 Publisher: David R Godine Pub Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $30.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)

Rating: 2
Summary: Quite a disappointment
Comment: A few years ago, I quite enjoyed Corpse and Mirror when I found a paperback copy of it. Nice humor, just enough intellectual pretension, plus the occasional bumrush of interesting language. So Yau's name was one that stuck in my head, and I've read him, in subsequent time, in publications like APR and Conjunctions and the like, and haven't been hugely impressed (but not depressed, either); nevertheless, based on the good will from my first experience with him, I bought his selected, and found myself bored. His early stuff (including Corpse) seems very Ashbery and Robert Kelly-ied, that is, loose and fast, depending on inventiveness and tonal control to hold pieces together. Yau is adequate at this, though without the oommmph of either Ashbery or Kelly. Dean Young does this sort of thing much better: more inventive, riskier, less posing. Yau's more recent work seems to be written right after reading Michael Palmer's "At Passages": austere, restrained, tortured. Yet, for whatever reason, Yau's take on this bores while Palmer's excites: it seems a necessity for Palmer, or almost like an unbearable weight: a hairshirt; it seems like a nice shirt for Yau, something comfortable and stylish to wear in the nicest journals.