Amazon Review, May 18, 2014

(from a verified purchaser)

 

 

The Jon Stewart of Poetry

(by Rich)

 

This is not Donne or Keats or even Whitman or Frost.  This is poetry for the 21st century; poetry that looks into issues and topics and ideas and events and lays them bare to scrutiny and perceptive language.  Just as quickly it turns on its heel and offers up selections that are there just to play with words or ideas or words-and-ideas.  Some of the offerings are deceptively short and others are cloaked in language specificity that demand more than just a casual reading.  At times, Langfeld captures a situation so precisely that you want him to offer a solution or at least a rallying cry for action.  But his appears to be the job of pricking the minds and consciences of others and, hopefully, moving them to more than an armchair response.  These are words to be savored; not an anthology to be rushed thru.